The Federal Trade Commission seems to be getting serious about unauthorized disclosures of data collected by health apps. In a Policy Statement issued on September 15, 2021, the FTC says
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New OCR Resource Adds Guidance on HIPAA and Direct-to-Consumer Health Apps
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A tricky issue for mobile health app developers since the Office for Civil Rights (OCR) released its first “Health App Use Scenarios & HIPAA” guidance back in 2016 has been…
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“I Have an App for That”: ONC’s Information Blocking Rule and HIPAA Access Rights
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A patient asks her doctor to send her test results to an app the patient has downloaded on her phone. The doctor worries that the app is not secure and…
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