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Telehealth Companies Monetizing and Sharing Health Data

These reports come despite company promises to prospective patients that their user data, including information about mental health and addiction treatment, will remain confidential. 

Senators Amy Klobuchar, Susan Collins, Maria Cantwell, and Cynthia Lummis expressed their concern over the protection of patients' sensitive health information by well-known telehealth companies. 

They referenced an investigation by STAT and The Markup that uncovered the deliberate sharing of patient data by telehealth companies with tech giants such as Meta, Facebook, Google, TikTok, Microsoft and Twitter, and other advertising platforms. 

It has been reported that these digital health companies are monitoring and distributing the personally identifiable health information of their clients, including their contact information, financial details, and more. 

“Telehealth…has become a popular and effective way for many Americans to receive care.  One-fifth of the U.S. population resides in rural or medically-underserved communities where access to virtual care is vital. This access should not come at the cost of exposing personal and identifiable information to the world’s largest advertising ecosystems,” the senators added. 

Senators Amy Klobuchar (D-Minn.), Susan Collins (R-Maine), Maria Cantwell (D-Wash.), and Cynthia Lummis (R-Wyo.) recently sent letters to telehealth companies Monument, Workit Health, and Cerebral, inquiring about their data sharing practices. 

“Recent reports highlight how your company shares users’ contact information and health care data that should be confidential. This information is reportedly sent to advertising platforms, along with the information needed to identify users. This data is extremely personal, and it can be used to target advertisements for services that may be unnecessary or potentially harmful physically, psychologically, or emotionally,” the letter reads.

Telehealth involves the provision of healthcare services and information through the use of electronic communication and information technologies. It enables remote patient-provider communication to provide services including consultation, education, monitoring, intervention, and even admission for treatment, overcoming the barriers of distance.
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Medical Device Cybersecurity: What Next in 2022?

 

A survey report on medical device cybersecurity was published by Cybellum, along with trends and predictions for 2022. It's worth noting that medical device cybersecurity has become a very challenging task. 

With medical devices increasingly becoming software-driven machines and the rapid pace at which cybersecurity risk emerges as a result of new vulnerabilities, complex supply chains, new suppliers, and new product lines, keeping the entire product portfolio secure and compliant at all times appears to be impossible. Learning from peers and attempting to identify the best path forward is now more crucial than ever. 

Security experts from hundreds of medical device manufacturers were asked what their biggest challenges are and how they plan to tackle them in 2022 and beyond in this poll. The following are some of the intriguing findings from the survey about medical device manufacturers' security readiness: 
  • The top security difficulty for respondents is managing an expanding number of tools and technologies, which is partially explained by a lack of high-level ownership. 
  • Seventy-five percent of respondents said they don't have a dedicated senior manager in charge of device security. 
  • Almost 90% of respondents acknowledged that companies need to improve in critical areas including SBOM analysis and compliance readiness. 
  • In 2022, nearly half of companies increased their cybersecurity spending by more than 25%. 
  • A dedicated response team (PSIRT) is not in existence at more than 55% of medical device makers. 
David Leichner, CMO at Cybellum said, “We embarked on this survey to gain a more comprehensive understanding of the main challenges facing product security teams at medical device manufacturers, as part of our effort to help to better secure the devices. Some of our findings were quite surprising and highlight serious gaps that exist both in processes for securing medical devices and in regulation compliance.”
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