From: FedScoop
Health app developers still face uncertainty around how to store data in the cloud, according to the executive director of ACT | The App Association.
By Whitney Blair Wyckoff
A new tool from the Federal Trade Commission offers a good primer for health app developers on federal privacy and security rules — but doesn’t delve much deeper, according to app makers and privacy advocates.
The Web-based tool asks developers a series of yes-or-no questions to see which elements of the government’s overlapping patchwork of relevant rules — the Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act; the Federal Food, Drug, and Cosmetic Act; Federal Trade Commission Act; and FTC’s Health Breach Notification Rule — might apply to their products. But there are critical questions the tool doesn’t answer, Morgan Reed, executive director of ACT | The App Association, said in an email.
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