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Health Data Outside HIPAA: Simply Extending HIPAA Would Be a #FAIL

E-CareManagement

Some have called on policymakers to extend HIPAA to cover mHealth apps and other online platforms. In the latest post in our series — “The Health Data Goldilocks Dilemma: Sharing? ” — Deven McGraw and I argue that extending HIPAA is not a viable solution. Read the full article in The Health Care Blog.

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Health Data Outside HIPAA: The Wild West of Unprotected Personal Data

E-CareManagement

The McKinsey “2,750 times” statistic is a pretty good proxy for the amount of your personal health data that is NOT protected by HIPAA and currently is broadly unprotected from sharing and use by third parties. Read the rest of our article on The Health Care Blog.

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Protecting Health Data Outside of HIPAA: Will the Protecting Personal Health Data Act Tame the Wild West ?

E-CareManagement

Congress is seriously considering bipartisan legislation — the “Protecting Personal Health Data Act” — to better protect the privacy of consumers’ personal data. Read the full post on The Health Care Blog. appeared first on e-CareManagement blog.

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Do Mental Health Apps Sell Your Client’s Sensitive Data to Data Brokers?

Telebehavioral Health Institute

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. ” JMIR Mental Health 7, no. What Is Privacy?,

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Health Consumers Expect Healthcare to be Digital (and Secure), Philips Future Health Index Finds

Health Populi

As my friends Deven McGraw, Chief Regulatory Officer at Ciitizen (whom I profiled here in Health Populi ), and Vince Kuraitis, longtime health strategy guru and author of the blog e-CareManagement.com , characterized this challenge, “The Goldilocks Dilemma” in The Health Care Blog.

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What’s Causing Fewer Primary Care Visits in the US?

Health Populi

Health Populi’s Hot Points: Here is what we know-we know about primary care: that countries with strong primary care backbones where patients lack barriers to seeking PCP care spend less money per capita on health care. And, that primary care is a social determinant of health, bolstering public and individual health.

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Can you identify 7 qualities of a successful telehealth program?

South Central Telehealth Resource Center

Successful telehealth programs use adequate bandwidth, HIPAA-compliant software, appropriate hardware and delivery methods that meet patient needs. If you are interested in learning more about the telehealth program development process, read this blog series: The Telehealth Professional’s Guide to Successful Program Development.