healthcare
The Private Health Information You Share with Mental Health Apps is Not So Private
Jan. 16, 2024—By Phoebe Hebson According to the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services, large breaches of health care data exposed the medical information of over eighty-eight million individuals in the first ten months of 2023 alone.[1] Health data can be lucrative for hackers–TechCrunch in December reported on a hacker offering to sell 300 terabytes of...
An Epidemic in Enforceability: A Growing Need for Individual Autonomy in Health Care Data-Privacy Protection in an Era of Digital Tracking
Jul. 28, 2023—Madeline Knight | 25 Vand. J. Ent. & Tech. L. 749 (2023). The health care system in the United States is under conflicting pressures. From one angle, there is a demand for the highest standard of care, which includes efficient, confidential communications between doctors and patients. From another, however, the technology that has facilitated such...
Why Punish Pharma for Making Medicine? Preserving Patent Protections and Cutting Consumer Costs
Jun. 28, 2023—Alex Wharton | 25 Vand. J. Ent. & Tech. L. 603 (2023). The push to lower pharmaceutical drug prices has taken a stronger foothold in legislative and executive actions in recent years. With average prices rising continuously over the past decade, many consumers struggle to pay for the medications they need—insulin being the most often...