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Flo Health App Fallout: HIPAA-like Breach Notification Rule Not Enforced by FTC

By Elizabeth G. Litten on January 14, 2021

Flo Health, Inc., which marketed an app used by more than 100 million women interested in tracking their personal menstruation and fertility information, seems to be getting off easily as…
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New OCR Resource Adds Guidance on HIPAA and Direct-to-Consumer Health Apps

By Elizabeth G. Litten on September 4, 2020

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

By Elizabeth G. Litten on August 17, 2020

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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Posted in Health IT, Uncategorized

New Apple Watch May Mark Time To Rethink HIPAA

By Elizabeth G. Litten on November 13, 2018

The new Apple Watch Series 4® is one of the more recent and sophisticated consumer health engagement tools. It includes a sensor that lets wearers take an electrocardiogram (ECG)…
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Posted in Health IT, Privacy & Security

There’s An App For That Health Information – But is it HIPAA-Covered?

By Elizabeth G. Litten on March 31, 2016

“Maybe” is the take-away from recent guidance posted on OCR’s mHealth Developer Portal, making me wonder whether the typical health app user will know when her health information is…
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Basic HIPAA Question for Mobile Health Application Developers: What Are You?

By Elizabeth G. Litten on February 3, 2015

Health-related technology has developed light-years faster than health information privacy and security protection laws and policies, and consumers can find new mobile health applications for a wide range of purposes…
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