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HIPAA Compliant App Development. What Do You Need to Know About It?

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Ruslan Balabanov
HIPAA Compliant App Development. What Do You Need to Know About It?

“HIPAA stands for the Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act (issued in 1996).

HIPAA department also built a series of privacy tools to protect healthcare data.”

As mobile app developers, we should be concerned with Electronic Protected Health Information (ePHI) represented by the data that’s saved, transmitted or collected in electronic form.

Which can be hacked and stolen, as long as someone’s iPhone or Smartphone can be lost (and many users don’t password-protect their devices), which leads to PHI exposure and leaves you with the HIPAA violation (non-disclosure) penalty.

You must appropriately follow each of them combined to ensure the confidentiality, integrity, and security of your user’s PHI.

It’s all about the security of data, who has authorized access to the PHI data and how this data is going to be managed, including data failure and redundancy requirements, access to servers etc.

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