"While the Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act, HIPPA, prohibits hospitals, doctors’ offices and “covered health entities” from sharing Americans’ health data, the law does not protect health data when it is sent to online to telemedicine sites or apps. Telemedicine sites and mobile health apps are thereby permitted to legally share or sell your health data."
"The team of researchers are calling for the federal government to expand HIPAA law to ban the sale of mental health data on the open market."
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