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Key Considerations for Patient-Reported Outcome Measures

Bill of Health

The HIPAA Privacy Rule should address PROMs as well. Because of the sensitive nature of much of the data, HIPAA should provide that as a default, PROM responses should not be disclosed to third parties (even when HIPAA permits disclosures) without specific requests for them along with justifications as to why they are needed.

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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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Report: Facebook Tracker Collecting Hospital Patient PHI

Compliancy Group

Use of Tracker by Hospitals Likely Violates HIPAA. Experts contacted in the article, including a former head of HIPAA enforcement for the Department of Health and Human Services, Office for Civil Rights expressed concern about the legality of the data transfer without patient authorization. It is quite likely a HIPAA violation.”.

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Data Well-Being: A Pillar of Health Citizenship for US Consumers

Health Populi

” The spider-web drawing from Sweeney’s privacy lab drew the many data flows that fall outside of the HIPAA law, a graphic drawn years before smartphones sensed GPS and wearable technologies became mainstream.

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The Balance of Personalization and Privacy For Health/Care – Amazon and Beyond

Health Populi

This tension has extreme relevance for personal health and healthcare, as AI and data analytics become quickly adopted by payors, insurance companies, providers, pharma, and consumer tech companies that lie outside of HIPAA privacy and security regulations.

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Will Technology Cure Americans’ Health Care System Ills? Considering Google and Ascension Health’s Data Deal

Health Populi

” The last paragraph of the press release states: “All work related to Ascension’s engagement with Google is HIPAA compliant and underpinned by a robust data security and protection effort and adherence to Ascension’s strict requirements for data handling.”

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The Digital Transformation of Patients – Update from Rock Health and Stanford

Health Populi

The coronavirus pandemic accelerated digital transformation of organizations, including health care providers.

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