Chief Healthcare Executive February 10, 2023
Ron Southwick

Four lawmakers have sent letters to three companies expressing their concerns and asking what they are doing to ensure private information isn’t given to advertisers.

A group of Democratic and Republican senators are pressing telehealth companies to do more to protect patient information.

U.S. Senators Amy Klobuchar (D-Minn.), Susan Collins (R-Maine), Maria Cantwell (D-Wash.), and Cynthia Lummis (R-Wyo.) are speaking out about telehealth companies and their use of patient data. They said they are concerned about the companies sharing that data with social media platforms such as Google and Facebook, which they said use the information to target advertisements.

The four senators wrote letters to the heads of three telehealth companies: Cerebral, Monument, and Workit. All three telehealth companies provide...

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