Protecting Health Data Outside of HIPAA: Will the Protecting Personal Health Data Act Tame the Wild West ?
Congress is seriously considering bipartisan legislation -- the "Protecting Personal Health Data Act" -- to better protect the privacy of consumers’ personal data.
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Source: e-CareManagement - August 20, 2019 Category: Information Technology Authors: Vince Kuraitis Tags: Health Policy/Reform Information & Communication Technologies (ICT) archive data sharing health IT HIPAA Klobuchar Murkowski privacy privacy legislation Protecting Personal Health Data Act Source Type: blogs
Protecting Health Data Outside of HIPAA: Will the Protecting Personal Health Data Act Tame the Wild West ?
by Deven McGraw and Vince Kuraitis
In the previous post of our series we described the “Wild West of Unprotected Health Data.”
Will the cavalry arrive to protect the vast quantities of your personal health data that are broadly unprotected from sharing and use by third parties?
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.
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Source: e-CareManagement - August 20, 2019 Category: Information Technology Source Type: blogs
Health Data Outside HIPAA: The Wild West of Unprotected Personal Data
The average patient will, in his or her lifetime, generate about 2,750 times more data related to social and environmental influences than to clinical factors.
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Source: e-CareManagement - August 13, 2019 Category: Information Technology Authors: Vince Kuraitis Tags: Health Policy/Reform Information & Communication Technologies (ICT) archive data sharing health data health IT HIPAA privacy privacy legislation Source Type: blogs
Health Data Outside HIPAA: The Wild West of Unprotected Personal Data
“…the average patient will, in his or her lifetime, generate about 2,750 times more data related to social and environmental influences than to clinical factors”
—McKinsey analysis
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. It’s part of the series “The Health Data Goldilocks Dilemma: Privacy? Sharing? Both?”.
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Source: e-CareManagement - August 13, 2019 Category: Information Technology Source Type: blogs
Pending Federal Privacy Legislation: A Status Update
The buzz around federal privacy legislation continues, but as of yet there appear to be no proposals or bills that have emerged as the lead bills.
Despite the perceived lack of movement of current bills, the ticking clock on the California Consumer Privacy Act (CCPA) suggests this issue is quite live in Congress, albeit less visible to most of us.
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Source: e-CareManagement - August 1, 2019 Category: Information Technology Authors: Vince Kuraitis Tags: Health Policy/Reform Information & Communication Technologies (ICT) archive CCPA GDPR privacy privacy legislation techlash Source Type: blogs
Pending Federal Privacy Legislation: A Status Update
By DEVEN McGRAW and VINCE KURAITIS
This post is part of the series “The Health Data Goldilocks Dilemma: Privacy? Sharing? Both?”
Read the full post on The Health Care Blog.
A few excerpts:
The buzz around federal privacy legislation continues, but as of yet there appear to be no proposals or bills that have emerged as the lead bills.
Despite the perceived lack of movement of current bills, the ticking clock on the California Consumer Privacy Act (CCPA) suggests this issue is quite live in Congress, albeit less visible to most of us.
How will healthcare be impacted? In reviewing all of the privacy and data protecti...
Source: e-CareManagement - August 1, 2019 Category: Information Technology Source Type: blogs
New Series on THCB — The Health Data Goldilocks Dilemma: Privacy? Sharing? Both?
The Goldilocks Dilemma has U.S. policymakers driving toward two seemingly conflicting goals:
1) Broader data interoperability and data sharing, and
2) Enhanced data privacy and data protection.
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Source: e-CareManagement - July 29, 2019 Category: Information Technology Authors: Vince Kuraitis Tags: Health Policy/Reform Information & Communication Technologies (ICT) archive data sharing Health Data Goldilocks Dilemma health IT interoperability privacy privacy legislation Source Type: blogs
New Series on THCB — The Health Data Goldilocks Dilemma: Privacy? Sharing? Both?
Once upon a time, there lived a little girl whose name was Goldilocks. She was a wise girl who was aware that there was great value in health data. One day she decided to go for a walk in the forest of the U.S. healthcare system.
Goldilocks learned that there are risks of TOO LITTLE health data being shared:
That she and her care providers would not have the best information for clinical decision making
That clinical researchers would be stifled from conducting groundbreaking analyses and studies
That next generation technologies, which rely on vast quantities of data (e.g., AI and machine learning) could be suffocated
Th...
Source: e-CareManagement - July 29, 2019 Category: Information Technology Source Type: blogs
For Your Radar — Huge Implications for Healthcare in Pending Privacy Legislation
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. Federal privacy legislation would have a huge impact on all healthcare stakeholders, including patients.
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Source: e-CareManagement - February 25, 2019 Category: Information Technology Authors: Vince Kuraitis Tags: Health Policy/Reform AI analytics archive artificial intelligence CCPA data protection Facebook GDPR HIPAA legislation machine learning ML privacy surveillance capitalism techlash Source Type: blogs
For Your Radar — Huge Implications for Healthcare in Pending Privacy Legislation
by Vince Kuraitis and 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?
Read the rest of our article on The Health Care Blo...
Source: e-CareManagement - February 25, 2019 Category: Information Technology Source Type: blogs
