Health Policy and Privacy Challenges Associated With Digital Technology.

ABSTRACT:

Importance

Digital technology is part of everyday life. Digital interactions generate large amounts of data that can reveal information about the health of individual consumers (the digital health footprint).

Objective

Τo describe health privacy challenges associated with digital technology.

Design, setting, and participants

For this qualitative study, In-depth, semistructured, qualitative interviews were conducted with 26 key experts from diverse fields in the US between January 1 and July 31, 2018. Open-ended questions and hypothetical scenarios were used to identify sources of digital information that contribute to consumers' health-relevant digital footprints and challenges for health privacy. Participants also completed a survey instrument on which they rated the

SUBMITTER: Grande D 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC7348687 | biostudies-literature | 2020 Jul

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature