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Health Data Privacy: Majority of Patients Demand Accountability, Transparency

HIT Consultant

What You Should Know: – A new examination of patient perspectives on health data privacy illustrates unresolved tension over the eroding security and confidentiality of personal health information in a wired society and economy. This concern is magnified with the U.S. Supreme Court ruling in Dobbs v. .

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Cybersecurity Vulnerabilities in Implantable Medical Devices

HIT Consultant

It’s no secret the healthcare industry amasses a fortune of personally identifiable information (PII) and health data. Despite longstanding privacy and security regulations, hackers are often successful. In 2017, the regulator warned the radio-frequency-enabled devices manufactured by St. Jude Medical had a critical flaw.

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Defragmenting European Law on Medical AI

Bill Of Health

Balancing competitiveness with the need for risk prevention, Europe aims to become a major digital player through its AI framework strategy, particularly in the field of digital health. It also takes into account the treaties in force or emerging at the level of the Council of Europe and its 46 Member States.

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Addressing Point-of-Care Ultrasound’s Shadow IT Problem

HIT Consultant

By administering ultrasound technology at the point of care, whether that be the patient’s bedside or an ambulance, POCUS prevents patients from being sent to another facility for imaging or waiting for a radiologist. Point-of-care ultrasound (POCUS) is taking hold across healthcare, and for good reason.

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Protecting the Consumer at the Heart of DTC Precision Medicine

Bill Of Health

Namely, legal protections concerning personal health data may not apply when the entity offering the service is decidedly not a “provider.” To illustrate the issue, consider that the Privacy Rule of the Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act (HIPAA) expressly covers genetic information as a form of health data.

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The Pandemic Accelerated Consumers’ Digital Health Tech Ownership As Big Tech Morphs To Big Health

Health Populi

Health Populi’s Hot Points: HIPAA, the Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act, was signed into law in 1996 by President Bill Clinton. This week, Ken Mandl and Eric Perakslis co-wrote an essay in The New England Journal of Medicine on HIPAA and the “leak of ‘deidentified’ EHR data.”

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Perspectives on Data Privacy for Direct-to-Consumer Health Apps

Bill Of Health

Direct-to-consumer (DTC) health apps, such as apps that manage our diet, fitness, and sleep, are becoming ubiquitous in our digital world. These apps provide a window into some of the key issues in the world of digital health — including data privacy, data access, data ownership, bias, and the regulation of health technology.