Today is World Patient Safety Day, and The Light Collective is proud to share new community-based participatory research on patient priorities in health technology. Health data regulations today are fraught…
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In a nutshell, the ruling that hospitals can share patient browsing data to Meta, TikTok and other third parties via adtech if patients view health related content, voiding part of OCR’s ban on tracking technologies.
Check out this resource from GoInvo which visually describes how your health data are used by different entities. When we as patients lack access to our own complete medical records, one thing to consider is how many others had such easy access to our data.
It is both appropriate and regrettable that October is Breast Cancer Awareness Month and Cybersecurity Awareness Month. As breast cancer survivors, collaborators with online patient communities, and founders of an organization representing the rights and voices of patients in healthcare technology, we are committed to using technology to educate, support, and empower as many breast cancer patients as possible so they can have the knowledge and tools to beat cancer and live their best lives.
Experts say some hospitals’ use of an ad tracking tool may violate a federal law protecting health information