Washington Enacts First In the Nation Health Data Protection Law

The Governor of Washington signed a package of legislation aimed at protecting the health care of women in response to the United States Supreme Court’s reversal of Roe vs. Wade. One of the new laws, the Washington My Health, My Data Act, seeks to protect consumers’ health care data that is currently not protected by the Health Information Portability and Accountability Act (HIPAA). The new Washington law, unlike HIPAA, applies to health data collected by non-covered entities, including certain apps and websites like tele-health websites and period-tracking apps, and broadly defines health data.

Source: https://www.jdsupra.com/legalnews/washington-enacts-first-in-the-nation-3989790/