Medical Xpress September 10, 2020
Like ordering a ride or food delivery on your smartphone, keeping track of your heart rate, blood pressure or weight is just a few taps away thanks to thousands of free or inexpensive health apps.
But with each click, you may be unwittingly handing over your health data to a third party.
As health apps skyrocket in popularity, experts and medical organizations have begun warning consumers of the hidden dangers. In May, the American Medical Association called on lawmakers and the health care industry to install “regulatory guardrails” to protect all types of patient privacy in the digital age.
Until that happens, health app users are largely unprotected from having their data passed along to tech giants and marketing companies...
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