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Representative Sullivan seeks to bring mental-health apps under Montana privacy law
Summary
Rep. Katie Sullivan’s HB 397 would apply the Uniform Healthcare Information Act to narrowly defined "mental health digital services" (apps/websites that provide mental-health or substance-use services), exempt HIPAA-covered telehealth, and create civil enforcement options for misuse of sensitive data.
Representative Katie Sullivan on Thursday introduced House Bill 397, asking the House Health and Human Services Committee to apply Montana’s Uniform Healthcare Information Act to a narrowly defined category of mobile and web-based mental-health services that collect, use, or market users' mental-health or substance-use information.
"These apps ... are not covered by federal HIPAA privacy laws or any state privacy laws. They have no obligation to keep these things private and they do not," Sullivan said, describing news reports…
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