Office for Civil Rights

FTC releases tool to help health app developers determine whether regulations apply

By Aditi Pai 11:00 am April 6, 2016

The Federal Trade Commission (FTC) has released a new interactive tool on its website, with help from the Office of National Coordinator for Health Information Technology (ONC), Office for Civil Rights (OCR) and the Food and Drug Administration (FDA), to help health app developers to determine whether certain regulations apply to their app. “Mobile app developers need clear information about the...

HHS adds more guidance for health app developers navigating HIPAA

By Aditi Pai 11:27 am February 12, 2016

The HHS Office for Civil Rights has published additional guidance on its mHealth Developer Portal that provides developers with different scenarios in which HIPAA might apply to the data their app collects. “We hope these new scenarios will help developers determine how federal regulations might apply to products they are building; we also hope they will reduce some of the uncertainty that can be...