Beyond HIPAA: A Proposed Self-Policing Framework for Digital Health Products
As digital health products proliferate, entities that fall outside HIPAA regulation are collecting vast amounts of biometric information.
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Read more: Lessons Learned from Deep Phenotyping Patients with Rare Psychiatric Disorders Lessons Learned from Deep Phenotyping Patients with Rare Psychiatric Disorders
It is important to respect the wishes of the various parties involved when describing patients with potentially stigmatizing diagnoses.
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Read more: Data Talking to Machines: The Intersection of Deep Phenotyping and Artificial Intelligence Data Talking to Machines: The Intersection of Deep Phenotyping and Artificial Intelligence
Researchers will need to consider when it is appropriate to leverage AI, versus when a human touch is needed.
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Read more: The False Dilemmas of the Fifth Circuit’s HIPAA Ruling The False Dilemmas of the Fifth Circuit’s HIPAA Ruling
The Fifth Circuit’s black and white reasoning guts the idea of flexibility that undergirds the HIPAA security rule.
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Read more: Telehealth Policy Brought to the Fore in the COVID-19 Pandemic Telehealth Policy Brought to the Fore in the COVID-19 Pandemic
The COVID-19 pandemic has highlighted the value of telehealth as both a tool of necessity as well as of innovation.
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Read more: Patient-Directed Uses vs. The Platform Patient-Directed Uses vs. The Platform
By Adrian Gropper, MD This post originally appeared on The Health Care Blog. This piece is part of the series “The Health Data Goldilocks Dilemma: Sharing? Privacy? Both?” which explores whether it’s possible to advance interoperability while maintaining privacy. Check out other pieces in the series here. It’s 2023. Alice, a patient at Ascension Seton Medical…
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Read more: A Delicate Balance: Proposed Regulations May Upset the Tension between Accessibility and Privacy of Health Information A Delicate Balance: Proposed Regulations May Upset the Tension between Accessibility and Privacy of Health Information
This piece was part of a symposium featuring commentary from participants in the Center for Health Policy and Law’s annual conference, Promises and Perils of Emerging Health Innovations, held on April 11-12, 2019 at Northeastern University School of Law. The symposium was originally posted through the Northeastern University Law Review Online Forum. Promises and Perils of Emerging Health…
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Read more: Diving Deeper into Amazon Alexa’s HIPAA Compliance Diving Deeper into Amazon Alexa’s HIPAA Compliance
By Adriana Krasniansky Earlier this year, consumer technology company Amazon made waves in health care when it announced that its Alexa Skills Kit, a suite of tools for building voice programs, would be HIPAA compliant. Using the Alexa Skills Kit, companies could build voice experiences for Amazon Echo devices that communicate personal health information with…
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Read more: Do You Know the Terms and Conditions of Your Health Apps? HIPAA, Privacy and the Growth of Digital Health Do You Know the Terms and Conditions of Your Health Apps? HIPAA, Privacy and the Growth of Digital Health
Given the limits of HIPAA and the growth of virtual medicine and health apps, what is the optimal regulatory structure to manage the health data increasingly collected by companies?
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Read more: DNA Donors Must Demand Stronger Privacy Protection DNA Donors Must Demand Stronger Privacy Protection
By Mason Marks and Tiffany Li An earlier version of this article was published in STAT. The National Institutes of Health wants your DNA, and the DNA of one million other Americans, for an ambitious project called All of Us. Its goal — to “uncover paths toward delivering precision medicine” — is a good one….