Medical Economics March 25, 2022
Todd Shryock

Allowing unregulated apps to access patient health information could expose patient information to those it wasn’t intended for

The Confidentiality Coalition and the Workgroup for Electronic Data Interchange sent a letter to the Commerce and HHS Secretaries outlining their concerns with allowing unregulated third-party apps to get access to patient health information.

The Confidentiality Coalition is composed of a broad group of hospitals, medical teaching colleges, health plans, pharmaceutical companies, medical device manufacturers, vendors of electronic health records, biotech firms, employers, health product distributors, pharmacies, pharmacy benefit managers, health information and research organizations, patient groups, and others founded to advance effective patient confidentiality protections.

While the Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act safeguards a specific subset of “protected health information,”...

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Topics: Apps, Digital Health, Govt Agencies, Healthcare System, HHS, Patient / Consumer, Privacy / Security, Provider, Technology
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