HealthIT Answers October 1, 2021
Healthcare Apps and Vendors Are Included
By Susan Walberg, JD MPA CHC, Principal Consultant, Compliance Ala Carte
As I have written in previous articles about HIPAA and health-tech, many apps in the marketplace have been largely unregulated with respect to the privacy and security of healthcare data. In order for healthcare-related apps to be regulated, for the most part, they needed to be covered under HIPAA. As a result, only the apps that were directly related to providing or billing for healthcare services, or those companies’ ‘Business Associates,’ were required to put specific controls and notifications in place. All the rest were not. The Federal Trade Commission (FTC), the agency responsible for consumer protection, hasn’t really been on the radar...
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