Overview
Jennifer Geetter, Julia Jacobson and Scott Weinstein wrote this bylined article about the data security and personal identification issues raised by providing consumer-generated health information (CHI) using health-related apps and websites. “The FTC appears to be concerned about potential harms arising from the storage and sharing of health-related information outside of a HIPAA-regulated environment,” the authors wrote, but they added that “whether the FTC will undertake regulatory and/or enforcement action about CHI is unclear.”