Health Populi

APRIL 17, 2023

The Washington State legislature passed House Bill 1155, aka the My Health, My Data Act , last week. The bill expands privacy protections for Washington State’s health citizens beyond HIPAA’s provisions. Governor Jay Inslee is expected to sign this into State law later this year.

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Health Populi

JANUARY 28, 2020

Smartphone adoption among older people grew by 50% since 2014, rising from 48% adoption among people 50+ to 79%. Under the current privacy regime of HIPAA for healthcare, indeed, we are. There were fascinating and helpful innovations at CES 2020 addressing health, and healthy aging, in Las Vegas unveiled earlier this month.

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Health Populi

AUGUST 28, 2020

consumers believe they have an obligation to share personal health information to stop the spread of the coronavirus. Only one-third of Americans would be willing to share their temperature, 29% their location, and one-fourth information about their chronic conditions. In the COVID-19 era, most U.S.

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Telebehavioral Health Institute

MARCH 16, 2023

Those advertising companies include Google, Facebook, Pinterest, TikTok, and many more, which are immune to HIPAA violations because they are not covered entities. A 2019 study documented that 20% of LatinX smartphone users were more likely to use a health app than Caucasians. The ACA’s 2014 Code of E thics reads A.7.

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