For Your Radar — Huge Implications for Healthcare in Pending Privacy Legislation

By VINCE KURAITIS and DEVEN McGRAW Vince Kuraitis Deven McGraw Two years ago we wouldn’t have believed it — the U.S. Congress is considering broad privacy and data protection legislation in 2019. There is some bipartisan support and a strong possibility that legislation will be passed. Two recent articles in The Washington Post and AP News will help you get up to speed. Federal privacy legislation would have a huge impact on all healthcare stakeholders, including patients.  Here’s an overview of the ground we’ll cover in this post: Why Now? Six Key Issues for Healthcare What’s Next? We are aware of at least 5 proposed Congressional bills and 16 Privacy Frameworks/Principles. These are listed in the Appendix below; please feel free to update these lists in your comments.  In this post we’ll focus on providing background and describing issues. In a future post we will compare and contrast specific legislative proposals. Why Now? A number of factors have contributed to bringing the privacy issue to the near boiling point: Techlash and Surveillance Capitalism. Facebook scandals, Cambridge Analytica, Russian election interference, tech addiction, data breaches — all have contributed to the techlash against Silicon Valley giants and have raised growing calls for regulation. A central theme is the growing public understanding of how personal data has been harvested. In a recent Blis survey, 63% of consumers responded that they were “more awa...
Source: The Health Care Blog - Category: Consumer Health News Authors: Tags: Data Health Policy AI analytics Artificial intelligence data protection Deven McGraw Facebook GDPR legislation machine learning ML Patient rights Privacy Tech platforms techlash Vince Kuraitis Source Type: blogs