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  • Read more: Reviewing Health Announcements at Google, Facebook, and Apple

    Reviewing Health Announcements at Google, Facebook, and Apple

    By Adriana Krasniansky Over the past several days, technology players Google, Apple, and Facebook have each reported health-related business news. In this blog post, we examine their announcements and identify emerging ethical questions in the digital health space. On Nov. 1, Google announced plans to acquire smartwatch maker Fitbit for $2.1 billion in 2020, subject…

    Person looking at a Fitbit watch in a Best Buy store
  • Read more: Getting Granular with Apple’s mHealth Guidelines

    Getting Granular with Apple’s mHealth Guidelines

    By Nicolas Terry In a post last week I compared Apple’s new mHealth App store rules with our classic regulatory models. I noted that the ‘Health’ data aggregation app and other apps using the ‘HealthKit’ API that collected, stored or processed health data would seldom be subject to the HIPAA Privacy and Security rules. There will…

  • Read more: Apple’s mHealth Rules Fear to Tread Where Our Privacy Laws Fall Short

    Apple’s mHealth Rules Fear to Tread Where Our Privacy Laws Fall Short

    By Nicolas Terry On September 9 Apple is hosting its ‘Wish We Could Say More’ event. In the interim we will be deluged with usually uninformed speculation about the new iPhone, an iWatch wearable, and who knows what else. What we do know, because Apple announced it back in June, is that iOS 8, Apple’s mobile…