Leveraging Knowledge to Manage Your Data Risks
Some app developers know more about our health than our doctors do. Take, for instance, FitBit, which is attached to our wrist and measuring in real time our temperature, our heart rate, our steps and whether we have had enough exercise for our age in a day.
Some people sleep with their phones on their…
In the top three of the list of highly sensitive personal data to be concerned about is our medical information. It’s so sensitive because it is so personal. It used to be that our medical information was located in paper charts at our doctor’s office, the hospital, the pharmacy and our health insurer. Now it’s…
Now even the fitness tracker you wear on your wrist is compliant with the Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act (HIPAA) of 1996. Fitbit’s Corporate Wellness team is one of the fastest growing sectors of the company, and Fitbit voluntarily took this “proactive step” to implement a HIPAA compliance program so that it could broaden…
