BY JESSICA DaMASSA
How will the reversal of Roe v. Wade influence digital care and digital well being corporations from a well being knowledge privateness standpoint, significantly as States crack down on the usage of telehealth as a mechanism for acquiring abortions and start to take a look at digital well being knowledge as potential proof in prison circumstances the place abortions are unlawful?
Well being knowledge privateness knowledgeable and rightfully-so-self-proclaimed HIPAA Scholar, Deven McGraw, who spent three years as Deputy Director of the Well being Data Privateness Workplace at HHS and at present leads Knowledge Sharing and Stewardship at Invitae, provides us her sizzling tackle what’s occurred from a well being knowledge privateness standpoint and the way it will influence well being tech companies and healthcare shoppers within the quick and lengthy phrases.
Deven’s take: “We’ve actually jumped the shark by way of what the implications are of well being knowledge falling into the arms of people that intend to make use of it to be able to pursue a prison case both towards a lady (or a person) looking for a service, or the supplier that carried out the service…” So, what does that imply for individuals who are coping with digital well being knowledge? What are the constraints so far as what HIPAA can shield for sufferers and what it could’t? What loopholes have Deven fearful in regards to the privateness regulation’s skill to stand-up to the challenges now posed by the Dobbs choice? And, what does all this imply for the telehealth-based companies which are offering providers to those sufferers?
We now have a sweeping dialog in regards to the shifting well being knowledge privateness panorama within the wake of Roe’s reversal on this newest episode of our particular month-to-month Digital Care Regulatory Spherical-up Collection, sponsored by the well being tech firm powering the digital care business, Wheel.
