Fed’s updated mobile health app tool aims to reduce HIPAA compliance mistakes

Source: SC Media

To navigate these compliance challenges, the tool walks developers through a series of poignant questions to assess the function of the app, collected data, and the service provided to users. Those answers direct the developer to more customized insights on the federal laws that could apply to its product, including the aforementioned rules and the Children’s Online Privacy Protection Act (COPPA), the Federal Food, Drug and Cosmetics Act (FD&C Act), the 21st Century Cures Act, Information Blocking Regulations of the Office of the National Coordinator for Health IT.