HealthLeaders Media February 25, 2022
The Health Data Use and Privacy Commission Act, introduced earlier this month in the Senate, would create a commission to study how HIPAA can be updated to take into account new technologies, including digital health and telemedicine.
KEY TAKEAWAYS
– The Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act (HIPAA) was drafted in the 1990s to protect interactions between patients and providers, but does not govern digital health companies that collect health data from consumers or new technologies like the smartphone, wearables, telehealth platforms and other other virtual care tools.
– The proliferation of digital health and telemedicine tools and platforms has allowed healthcare organizations to access, collect, and analyze more health data from different locations, but it has also opened the...
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