Christopher Brown reports: Federal regulators are taking aim at the information walls between health-care providers and the social services sector as part of their effort to reduce health disparities, Micky Tripathi, the nation’s top Health IT official, said Thursday. Linking health care providers with social services organizations through health information technology will allow patients to…
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Public Comments Now Available on Proposed Modifications to the HIPAA Privacy Rule
From HHS OCR: Public Comments Now Available on Proposed Modifications to the HIPAA Privacy Rule Public comments submitted in response to the Notice of Proposed Rulemaking on Modifications to the HIPAA Privacy Rule are now available for public viewing on Regulations.gov at: https://www.regulations.gov/document/HHS-OCR-2021-0006-0001. The proposed changes to the HIPAA Privacy Rule include strengthening individuals’ rights to…
Nine out of 10 health apps harvest user data, global study shows
Soofia Tariq writes: Nine out of 10 mobile health apps collect and track user data, according to a new global study. The research published in the British Medical Journal conducted in-depth analysis of more than 20,000 mobile health apps on the Google Play Store, some of which require users to disclose sensitive health information, including step and…
Western Australia Police refuse to apologise over COVID-19 app privacy breach
Tom Livingstone reports: Western Australia Police are standing by a decision to access personal data from the state’s COVID-19 contact tracing app in their investigation into the assassination of former Rebels bikie boss, Nick Martin. WA Police Commissioner Chris Dawson told Nine Radio’s 6PR the investigators’ actions were lawful and he “expected officers to do everything possible to bring…