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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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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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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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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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I'm wondering if Verizon Home Phone connect with a analog phone hooked up to is violates HIPAA in any way. I'm more concerned about cellular te...

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Is a state-run MM...

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Is a state-run medical marijuana patient registry a covered entity? The Florida registry includes identifiable patient personal information and ...

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Certain pediatric tasks require fairly precise ages, for example when evaluating jaundice one must know a baby's age in hours. What precautions...

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When implementing external services with clients (such as exposing an API to external clients), are there any HIPAA rules/regulations around tes...

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