Executive Briefings | December 21, 2013
Private Health Data Made Public
The last few months have seen an interesting development surrounding health care consumer privacy – namely, how much "transparency" are health care consumers willing to put up with when it comes to their personal health data? Here are a few cases in point:
Last summer a consumer was awarded $1.44 million after a Walgreen's pharmacist violated the Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act (HIPAA) (see Walgreens Pays $1.44M for Alleged HIPAA Violation). This sounds like just one . . .