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K&L Gates LLP

US Regulatory Considerations Applicable to Digital Health Providers and Suppliers – Part II: HIPAA (Continued) & Additional...

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In Part I, we provided a high-level overview of Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act of 1996 (HIPAA) and its provisions. In Part II, we discuss how HIPAA is applied to mobile health (mHealth) application...more

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DHHS Updates Resources for Mobile Health App Developers

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The COVID-19 pandemic and the resulting need for patient access to remote healthcare, as well as the development of contact-tracing apps, have spotlighted the importance of health-focused mobile applications (mHealth apps)....more

Troutman Pepper

AGs Weave Themselves Into Patchwork of Digital-Health Regs

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There are more than 165,000 mobile health applications available for download in Apple’s App Store or Google Play. This number will likely keep rising, and a body of federal and state regulators, including state attorneys...more

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Agencies Encourage New Privacy Regulations to Close the mHealth Black Hole and Keep Pace with Evolving Technologies

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On July 19, 2016, the ONC submitted a report to Congress which suggests that health privacy regulations soon may be revised to catch up with the universe of mHealth technologies that now use and share personal health data....more

Morgan Lewis

Health Apps and HIPAA: OCR Publishes New Guidance For Health App Developers

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OCR’s guidance presents hypothetical scenarios and key questions to help app developers determine when they are subject to HIPAA regulations. On February 11, the Department of Health and Human Services’ Office for Civil...more

Faegre Drinker Biddle & Reath LLP

Get Your Questions Ready

A lot has changed since the HIPAA Privacy Rule was finalized in 2002 and the HIPAA Security Rule was finalized a year later in 2003. The iPhone had not been released (that happened in 2007), Apple had just released the...more

Davis Wright Tremaine LLP

[Webinar] Mobile Device Management for Health Care Organizations and Vendors - Sept. 10th, 10:00am PDT

In this webinar, we will demystify the HIPAA Security Rule and how to apply the administrative, physical, and technical safeguards in a mobile environment. We will discuss key takeaways from the recently released NIST Draft...more

Dickinson Wright

Legal and Regulatory Landscape for Mobile Health Technologies

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Mobile health (mHealth) technologies continue to expand in application and implementation. Over the past decade, the breadth of these technologies has grown from the creation of healthcare-directed websites (think WebMD) to...more

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Healthcare Legal News Volume 5 Number 2

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According to a recent study by Accenture, by 2017 approximately 18 percent of the American public will purchase insurance through exchanges versus relying on traditional employer healthcare coverage or foregoing insurance...more

Obermayer Rebmann Maxwell & Hippel LLP

Is Your Mobile Health App HIPAA Compliant?

Mobile health apps (also known as mHealth apps) are increasingly popular with consumers. As of 2014, there were more than 100,000 mobile health apps available on iOS and Android platforms, and total revenue from mobile health...more

Cooley LLP

HHS to Address Lack of Clarity Regarding Mobile Health

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A letter from the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services’ (HHS) Office for Civil Rights to Rep. Peter DeFazio (D-Ore.) signals an intent to move forward with providing clearer regulatory guidance relating to the Health...more

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mHealth Technology – Development in an Uncertain Regulatory Climate

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The development and use of mobile technologies and devices is expanding at an incredibly fast pace and is changing, and in fact revolutionizing, the way patients and healthcare providers interact. Mobile medical technologies...more

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