Privacy risks grow as wearable devices connect to medical records outside HIPAA protection
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Tina Reed
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Health tech companies are increasingly promoting patient data sharing between wearables and medical records, but this raises privacy concerns because once data leaves a doctor's office, it is no longer protected by HIPAA. Whoop's recent partnership with HealthEx to share patient records within its wearable app ecosystem exemplifies this trend, highlighting the regulatory gap in data protection.
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Wearable fitness tracker Whoop, in partnership with the health records platform HealthEx, announced last week a plan to make it easier to share patient records within the wearable's app ecosystem.
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