Putting patient data on phones introduces new privacy and security concerns

The recent push from both Apple and the CMS to give patients more control of their own health data stands to boost patient engagement, which most in the industry consider a good thing. But moving data outside of the relatively safe confines of an electronic health record adds another layer of risk and vulnerability.

As more parties gain access to the data, more avenues for breaches open up, potentially jeopardizing not just information security but also patient privacy. Bad actors can now target not only EHR systems but also patients’ phones, where health data reside.

Those pools of data will only grow larger. Last week, Apple officially launched the next iteration of its Health app, which allows people to...

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