About 94% of patients want companies to be held legally accountable for uses of their health data, while 93% want health app developers to be transparent about how their products use and share personal health data. The survey found that an overwhelming percentage of patients demand accountability, transparency and control as it relates to health data privacy. The survey indicated patients are most comfortable with physicians and hospitals having access to personal health data and least comfortable with social media sites, employers and technology companies having access to the same data. That ruling overturned the right to abortion that had been protected by Roe v.

Jackson Women's Health Organization, as the lack of data privacy could place patients and physicians in legal peril in states that restrict reproductive health services. Nearly 75% of the 1,000 patients surveyed by Savvy Cooperative expressed concern about protecting the privacy of personal health data, and only 20% of patients said they knew the scope of companies and individuals with access to their data.

Released by the American Medical Association, the study showed that more than 92% of patients believe privacy is a right and their health data should not be available for purchase.

Confidence in the security and confidentiality of personal health information is beginning to erode, if the results of a new survey are any indication.

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