Healthcare data is thought to be well protected to the general consumer due to laws such as HIPAA (Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act). But this protection applies to specific healthcare entities and does not include medical health apps, websites and tracking services.

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In this latest Forbes article, Dan Frechtling outlines the potential risk to health data, new laws that have gone into effect to further protect this data and how regulators are taking action against non-compliant companies.