Inside Digital Health July 24, 2019
The future of health data privacy is uncertain, but there seems to be some movement in the right direction. Sens. Lisa Murkowski, a Republican from Alaska, and Amy Klobuchar, a Minnesota Democrat who’s running for president, introduced the Protecting Personal Health Data Act last month, with the goal of closing security gaps in health data treatment for platforms that didn’t exist when HIPAA was created. This bill is a targeted piece of legislation that might end up attached to larger legislation. The importance of the topics addressed in the bill — such as data privacy and personal health apps — is only going to grow stronger.
As companies like Amazon and Facebook venture into the healthcare sphere, we have to...
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