Manatt Health partner Melinda Dutton spoke with Law360 on the impact social determinants of health will have on the industry in 2020. In the article, Dutton commented on whether privacy and security rules are sufficient to protect health information shared through cross-sector information exchange, saying, “current state and federal privacy and security requirements do not contemplate such cross-sector information exchange. Over the next decade, expect the dialogue about the exchange of information necessary to facilitate patient health to broaden to contemplate new players, new types of information and new methods for ensuring consumer protections.”
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