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
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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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New Apple Watch May Mark Time To Rethink HIPAA
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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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There’s An App For That Health Information – But is it HIPAA-Covered?
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“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?
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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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