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: matthew holt 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
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