The deputy director of health information privacy for the Health and Human Services Department's the Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act) has said that Office for Civil Rights (OCR (HIPAA) does not cover all health information and may sometimes, but not always, apply to health apps that exchange data with electronic health records. To address the confusion whether and when apps are subject to HIPAA's privacy and security requirements, the OCR launched a portal for developers and others to ask questions anonymously.
The deputy director of health information privacy for the Health and Human Services Department's Office for Civil Rights (OCR) has said that the Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act (HIPAA) does not cover all health information and may sometimes, but not always, apply to health apps that exchange data with electronic health records. To address the confusion whether and when apps are subject to HIPAA's privacy and security requirements, the OCR launched a portal for developers and others to ask questions anonymously.