With great data comes great responsibility: New regulatory challenges for health tech

Big data holds commensurately large promise for medtech and digital health companies building tools to analyze that information and develop programs to improve patient health.

But these emerging technologies have run headlong into new privacy-oriented regulatory and legislative challenges.

At the AdvaMed Digital MedTech Conference in San Francisco, experts in data privacy explained how new legislation is shaping how the industry thinks about privacy and how to protect patient information and mitigate business risk in an uncertain environment.