Industry Note:
Phone App Developers Could Be Considered Business Associates in Certain Instances
Published on Tue Mar 08, 2016
Phone apps go beyond Angry Birds and Pandora these days — and some are so advanced that they can even fall under the HIPAA privacy laws. The HHS Office of Civil Rights (OCR) released a report this week demonstrating just how a phone app can be subject to the HIPAA laws. According to the document, entitled “Health App Use Scenarios [...]