mHealth Regulation, Legislation, and Cybersecurity

Abstract

The rapid evolution of mobile technology and its growing impact on health-care delivery is shifting public and media attention from the “capture, store, and com- municate” functionality of mobile technologies to the more provocative issues of regulation and consumer protection. With awareness that regulation is pervasive in the health-care industry, legislative action to regulate mHealth technologies was inevitable. Deloitte executives acknowledge that “networked medical devices and other mobile health devices have the potential to play a transformational role in healthcare, but also may be a vehicle that exposes patients and health care orga- nizations to safety and security risks” (Deloitte Center 2013).