Providers, patients can now use Apple’s fingerprint scanner to access...
Mobile-focused EHR company drchrono has updated its iPad-based EHR and smartphone-based PHR so that both can be accessed with Apple’s Touch ID, a security feature that was added to the latest...
View ArticleStudy finds most patients want the option to withhold data from their doctors
HIPAA is designed to give patients control of their own medical data — who can see it, who can access it, and who can use it, especially with regards to third parties. But when it comes to physicians...
View ArticleGovernment pledges to make HIPAA clearer for mobile health companies
HHS’ Office of Civil Rights, which oversees the administration of HIPAA, will begin working closely with mobile health companies to make sure HIPAA rules are clear and unambiguous, according to a...
View ArticleCIT GAP Fund invests in Ostendio to help healthtech companies with HIPAA
The Center for Innovative Technology GAP Fund has invested an undisclosed amount in Ostendio, a DC-based company that developed a software-as-a-service offering aimed at helping health IT companies...
View ArticleFTC increasingly active in OCR, FDA’s traditional purviews
Developers of mobile health apps need to be mindful of regulation from a number of different quarters. Among others, developers need to be aware of the FDA, OCR (HIPAA), and the FTC, which is...
View ArticleNew government how-to guide hopes to prevent mobile EHR data breaches
The National Cybersecurity Center of Excellence (NCCoE), a division of the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) has penned a five-part draft guidance on cybersecurity for mobile...
View ArticleGlobal market for healthcare biometric authentication to generate $250M in 2015
As more and more mobile devices embed biometric sensors, mostly for health and fitness tracking, the market for using biometrics for identifying and authenticating people is trending up, according to a...
View ArticleFitbit becomes HIPAA-compliant, signs Target, unveils large-scale challenge...
Fitbit’s Corporate Wellness arm officially became a HIPAA compliant platform, announced Target as a new client, which will offer Fitbits to its 335,000 US employees, and showed off a new software...
View ArticleHealth Gorilla raises $2.4M for clinical communication platform
Health Gorilla, a Sunnyvale, California-based company that just released a clinical communication platform, raised $2.4 million from Data Collective, with additional contributions from True Ventures,...
View ArticleWanted: “Nutrition Facts” for health app data privacy
Just last week, the Consumer Electronics Association released guidelines about privacy policies for health and fitness devices. At the Partners Healthcare Connected Health Symposium in Boston last...
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