{"id":9341,"date":"2016-02-26T16:48:45","date_gmt":"2016-02-26T21:48:45","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/healthit-gov.go-vip.net\/buzz-blog\/?p=9341"},"modified":"2025-07-11T20:38:55","modified_gmt":"2025-07-11T20:38:55","slug":"model-privacy-notice","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/healthit.gov\/blog\/privacy-and-security\/model-privacy-notice\/","title":{"rendered":"Keeping Consumers in the Know: Help Us Update the Model Privacy Notice"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>As ever more sophisticated retail health technology \u2013 like exercise trackers, wearable health technologies, or mobile applications that help individuals monitor various body measurements \u2013 comes into widespread use, it is increasingly important for consumers to be aware of companies\u2019 privacy and security policies, including data sharing practices.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Given this diverse market and the array of innovative options from which consumers can choose, ONC is embarking on an effort to update the Model Privacy Notice (MPN) \u2014 a voluntary, openly available resource designed to help developers provide transparent notice to consumers about what happens to their data. The MPN\u2019s approach is to provide a standardized, easy-to-use framework to help developers clearly convey information about privacy and security to their users.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The 2011 version of the MPN was developed in collaboration with the Federal Trade Commission and focused on Personal Health Records (PHRs), which were the emerging technology at the time. We plan to update the MPN to make it applicable to a broad range of consumer health technologies beyond just PHRs \u2013 and we need your input to make it the best possible resource for the community.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>We\u2019ll be at the <a href=\"https:\/\/healthit.gov\/news\/leading-edge-acceleration-projects-leap-health-information-technology-health-it\/\/events\/HIMSS\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">2016 HIMSS Annual Conference<\/a> to discuss the MPN, patient engagement, and other ONC efforts to support information transparency for consumers. 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For information on how to submit comments on how we can improve the MPN, follow <a href=\"https:\/\/s3.amazonaws.com\/public-inspection.federalregister.gov\/2016-04239.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">these instructions [PDF &#8211; 440KB]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>As ever more sophisticated retail health technology \u2013 like exercise trackers, wearable health technologies, or [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":619,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_selected_menu":"","_show_breadcrumbs":"true","_blog_show_featured_image":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[45],"archived-category":[],"featured":[],"topics":[425,436,435],"class_list":["post-9341","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-privacy-and-security","topics-hit-policy","topics-privacy","topics-security-privacy"],"acf":{"blog_authors":[{"blog_author_profiles":"173339"},{"blog_author_profiles":"193020"},{"blog_author_profiles":"193024"},{"blog_author_profiles":"172875"}],"hp_news_hide":false},"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO Premium plugin v24.3 (Yoast SEO v24.8.1) - 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