HIPAA and Protecting Health Information in the 21st Century

This Viewpoint posits that HIPAA no longer fully protects health information in today ’s big data era in which health data are collected and exchanged in nonclinical settings, such as social media, apps, and search engines, and proposes principles around which reform of health information privacy protections should be organized.
Source: JAMA - Journal of the American Medical Association - Category: General Medicine Source Type: research