Health Affairs July 5, 2018
Recently, the Journal of the American Medical Association published a “Viewpoint” by I. Glenn Cohen and Michelle M. Mello asking, among other things: “Is HIPAA up to the task of protecting health information in the 21st century?” As federal policy advisers and policy makers have quietly, if insistently, been pointing out since 2014, with the advent of health big dataand social media, the Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act (HIPAA) alone cannot adequately protect all the privacy and dignitary interests of individuals.
HIPAA was enacted in 1996. A lot has changed over the past 22 years: Today, a person’s digital footprints from social media and through their retail spending habits are regularly used to make inferences about health. Even though...
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