Opinion: Protecting employees’ health data

Giving employers access to employee health information could make workers vulnerable to discrimination. To address this problem, a group of legal scholars has called for federal legislation that would bar companies from hiring or firing people based on health information gleaned through health data services. It would also ensure employees’ right to see the information these services collected about them and to have that information deleted.Americans need federal protections to make sure that those conclusions based on their health care use don’t cost them their jobs.