Medicare Compliance & Reimbursement

Industry Note:

Phone App Developers Could Be Considered Business Associates in Certain Instances

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 [...]
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