Health Apps Face Privacy Problems in New CMS Ecosystem

Health Apps Face Privacy Problems in New CMS Ecosystem

In September, the Trump administration launched the Health Technology Ecosystem, which will gather user health information from patient-facing apps, CMS-aligned networks, and other health care industry players to promote interoperability and enable information sharing for patients and providers. The Ecosystem’s baseline privacy protections for patient-facing health apps will likely fall short of consumer expectations around…

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Eradicate 'deaths from breast cancer'

Eradicate ‘deaths from breast cancer’

About 170,000 women in the United States are living with metastatic breast cancer — or cancer that has spread to other organs — and eventually leads to death. Now, a team led in part by oncologists from the Yale cancer hospital is looking to drastically change that outcome through new clinical trials that will begin…

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