In a blog post, the US Federal Trade Commission (FTC) expressed its intentions to enforce against improper and illegal consumer location and health data privacy practices.
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President Biden released an “Executive Order on Protecting Access to Reproductive Healthcare Services,” which addressed patient privacy protections and stressed the importance of abortion...
HIPAA clashes with patient privacy and health data protections relating to newly imposed abortion restrictions in several major ways, experts suggested in a recent JAMA Health Forum article. The...
US Senators Michael Bennet (D-CO) and Catherine Cortez Masto (D-NV) asked HHS to consider updating the HIPAA Privacy Rule to better defend reproductive rights in a recent letter.
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Google announced plans to heighten its data privacy practices and said it would delete location history when users visit abortion clinics, domestic violence shelters, fertility centers, weight loss...
The HHS Office for Civil Rights (OCR) issued guidance on patient privacy and rights under the HIPAA Privacy Rule that can help patients maintain security and privacy in light of the recent Roe v. Wade...
In letters to Talkspace and BetterHelp, Senators Ron Wyden (D-OR), Elizabeth Warren (D-MA), and Cory Booker (D-NJ) urged the leading mental health apps to provide clarification on their patient data...
Senators Ron Wyden (D-OR), Elizabeth Warren (D-MA), Cory Booker (D-NJ), and Rep. Sara Jacobs (D-CA) sent a letter asking the Federal Trade Commission (FTC) to launch an investigation into Apple and...
In the wake of detailed allegations of patient privacy violations covered in a report co-published by The Markup and STAT, Meta (the parent company of Facebook) is facing a lawsuit over the use of its...
US Senators introduced the Health and Location Data Protection Act, which would ban data brokers from selling location and health data in anticipation of the potential repeal of Roe v. Wade.
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The potential repeal of Roe v. Wade has sparked data security and patient privacy concerns, prompting 40 congressional Democrats to pen a letter to Google asking them to stop collecting and retaining...
The Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act of 1996 (HIPAA) established national standards for the security and privacy of protected health information (PHI). HHS issued the HIPAA Privacy Rule and the HIPAA Security Rule to...
State and federal legal inconsistencies, the proliferation of EHRs, and information blocking rules under the 21st Century Cures Act present challenges to preserving adolescent patient privacy, an...
The American College of Physicians (ACP), the American Telemedicine Association (ATA), and other industry leaders released a new framework to help providers and patients assess the...
Only 2 percent of healthcare employees who received an email warning after committing unauthorized protected health information (PHI) access carried out the same offense again, a research letter...
Third-party health applications fall outside HIPAA's purview, positioning them in a regulatory gray area where transparency, security, and privacy obligations are left open to interpretation. Consumers may not realize that the way...
Electronic health data functions primarily to enable the delivery of healthcare services, a viewpoint article published in JAMA Network argued. Sharing that data for research and public health are...
The Food and Drug Administration (FDA) released draft guidance offering recommendations for stakeholders surrounding the use of digital health technologies (DHTs) for remote data collection in clinical...
Artificial intelligence (AI) in healthcare has the potential to revolutionize clinical research and care delivery. AI can be used to sift through massive databases and may have applications in mental healthcare and cancer...
A growing number of states are enacting new genetic data privacy laws to protect patients from misuse of data and to hold private companies accountable for proper data governance practices.
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