In a matter of weeks, the U.S. Congress has come a long way on telehealth. For years, ACT | The App Association’s Connected Health Initiative (CH)) pushed for the removal of a critical barrier to widespread telehealth deployment: Section 1834(m) of the Social Security Act, which severely restricts the circumstances [...]
With the COVID-19 pandemic upending the normal routines of millions, commotion and confusion unfortunately rule the day. Much of the country is severely curtailing travel and abstaining from visiting healthcare providers unless a severe emergency arises, leading providers to adopt telehealth and remote patient monitoring solutions to handle more routine [...]
As the debate surrounding facial recognition intensified in 2019, you could be forgiven for not being able to make sense of the cacophony. Not only is facial recognition itself a subset of the broader privacy discussion, but it brings to bear a diverse assortment of issues whose relevance depends on [...]
Today, the law of the land concerning the privacy of individuals’ health information is the Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act (HIPAA), and more specifically, the HIPAA Privacy Rule. But one need only take a cursory look at the name of the underlying law (Health Insurance Portability…) to glean that [...]
If you checked your email inbox lately you will realize that the long-awaited California Consumer Privacy Act (CCPA) is officially in effect. As a result, virtually every company with a national footprint must now comply with a long list of new requirements that fundamentally change the business-consumer relationship, as well [...]