Busy Privacy Agenda for 2020 Has Health Companies on Edge

Health technology companies face stricter privacy rules and risk steeper fines in 2020 as they navigate a ream of new state and federal rules to protect patient privacy.

With congressional updates to the Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act looking unlikely, the Department of Health and Human Services plans to spend 2020 working on rules tackling privacy issues such as cybersecurity and patients’ right to their data.

Ensuring those rules work in concert as states also set their own standards will be critical to keeping patient data secure when sharing it moving forward, according to health tech advocates.

For example, ...