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Doctors Routinely Share Health Data Electronically Under HIPAA, and Sharing With Patients and Patients’ Third-Party Health Apps is Consistent: Interoperability and Privacy Analysis

Doctors Routinely Share Health Data Electronically Under HIPAA, and Sharing With Patients and Patients’ Third-Party Health Apps is Consistent: Interoperability and Privacy Analysis

Eleven years after the Health Information Technology for Economic and Clinical Health (HITECH) Act of 2009 [1], clinicians and health systems are increasingly accustomed to transmitting patients’ health data electronically to other doctors, hospitals, labs, pharmacies, and payers, within and outside the sending doctor’s system, for treatment and reimbursement. As of 2015, 96% of hospitals and 78% of physicians had adopted a certified EHR [2].

Mark Savage, Lucia Clara Savage

J Med Internet Res 2020;22(9):e19818