Health Affairs September 28, 2020
Over the past year, the American Medical Association (AMA) and other major health care stakeholders strongly objected to new regulations enabling patients to use smartphones and third-party applications (apps) to collect and manage their health information. The stated rationale for their objections? Patients might share sensitive health information with commercial third parties (such as app vendors) not covered by the privacy and security regulations of the Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act of 1996 (HIPAA). Indeed, concerns about the lack of comprehensive privacy protections for health information shared outside of HIPAA are well-founded and should be addressed by Congress. But providing patients with full access to and use of their health information is also critical to achieving a patient-centered health...
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