Who should take responsibility for pushing stricter privacy rules on patient data?

Becker's Healthcare May 24, 2022
Georgina Gonzalez

Health apps often have privacy policies that are loose and unclear to users, but who should step in to regulate their rules is not clear, reported Kaiser Health News May 19.

Although health apps deal with lots of sensitive data from users, they are not covered under the same HIPAA policies that hospitals and health systems are bound to. This means their rules on who they sell and share user data with is up to the apps themselves, making it difficult for users to keep track of and understand the variety of policies.

Some advocates argue that the federal government should step in to create legislation...

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