Regulatory/Assurance Group Resources
Integrating observations of daily living (ODLs) into clinical practice workflows raises a number of legal and policy issues. Project HealthDesign has partnered with Manatt Phelps & Phillips, LLP and the Center for Democracy & Technology to help navigate these challenges.
The Goal
In our five current Project HealthDesign studies, ODLs are flowing from the patient through portable electronic devices to data repositories. Clinicians then access this ODL data in different ways. The Regulatory/Assurance Group is evaluating the implications of existing state and federal laws governing the privacy of this health information and providing policy advice when there is no specifically applicable law.
The lessons we learn from analyzing these and other issues will help to inform the ever-evolving federal HITECH/ARRA implementation policy discussions that may govern the exchange of ODLs and other information in personal health records.
- Read blog posts related to legal and policy work to learn more about the group's work.
- See materials from the group's Mobile Device Privacy and Security Issues Webinar.
Privacy and security legal analysis for current projects
- BreathEasy (pdf)
- Crohnology.MD (pdf)
- dwellSense (formerly Embedded Assessment) (pdf)
- Estrellita (formerly FitBaby) (pdf)
- iN Touch (pdf)
Project HealthDesign is a national program of the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation's Pioneer Portfolio