Amid rising concerns about data privacy within the telehealth arena, the American Telemedicine Association (ATA) released a set of principles to ensure patient data is protected during telehealth utilization.
The ATA’s Health Data Privacy Principles include six components:
- Consistency
- The definition of consumer health data
- The Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act (HIPAA)
- Consumer rights
- Consumer consent
- Sale of data and opt-out; and
- Enforcement.
The ATA states that a federal policy would offer much-needed consistency in data privacy practices for telehealth providers nationwide. But in lieu of such a policy, there need to be efforts to establish uniformity with existing federal and state privacy laws and standards to reduce compliance challenges and confusion.
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