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Developers need better guidance around patient generated health data, since HIPAA focusses on one-way data sharing from a provider/other covered...

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Help with busines...

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There is a lack of transparency around the content of Business Associate Agreements (BAAs), a lack of sample BAA language around the topics deve...

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How can we determine if we’re a covered entity? The resources to make that determination are expensive – i.e. law firms

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Developer and HIPAA

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Offline compliance

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We have a computer that will never have network access, it is completely stand alone. It is used to process x-rays and then burn the data to CD...

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Doe’s remote acce...

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We provide support to healthcare provider while accessing server and clients.

The healthcare server DB stores ePHI (Only medical record nu...

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Hippa and company...

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Our company allows employees to have company email on our BYOD's we are wonder what is needed to insure our email, and mobile devices are HIPPA ...

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HTTPS Communicati...

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We are trying to send medical data from clinics to an Amazon S3 service via an https connection (using an API). The S3 is...

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A business associate provides no medical advice, medical services, medical devices, etc. But it talks to patients of the covered entity. Those...

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Does HIPAA extend...

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A software company (e.g. a startup) develops an untethered PHR that is offered directly to the patient (consumer). The patient then authorizes P...

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Nonprofit Emergen...

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Is a nonprofit EMS company (501c3) required to have a notice of privacy practices if it is an emergency response group? What aspects of HIPAA ar...

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Is my App followi...

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I email addresses of the users of the app, which are all doctors not patients, for authentication purposes. The application uses SSL encryption...

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