{"id":418,"date":"2016-03-24T19:25:00","date_gmt":"2016-03-24T19:25:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/informedintel.com\/account\/datasecurity\/wp-datasecurity\/2016\/03\/24\/health-care-data-security-non-hippa-entities-health-wellness-apps-beware-medical-billing-companies-hello-bonjour-medical-transcribers\/"},"modified":"2016-03-24T19:25:00","modified_gmt":"2016-03-24T19:25:00","slug":"health-care-data-security-non-hippa-entities-health-wellness-apps-beware-medical-billing-companies-hello-bonjour-medical-transcribers","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/informedintel.com\/account\/datasecurity\/wp-datasecurity\/health-care-data-security-non-hippa-entities-health-wellness-apps-beware-medical-billing-companies-hello-bonjour-medical-transcribers\/","title":{"rendered":"Health care data Security. Non-HIPPA entities. Health &#038; Wellness Apps Beware. Medical Billing Companies Hello. Bonjour Medical Transcribers."},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>What entities are the new targets for data security enforcement?\u00a0<\/strong>HIPPA adjacent health and wellness companies.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p><strong>Why are HIPPA adjacent health and wellness companies the focus of regulators?<\/strong>\u00a0These companies collect and store personal health information. For example:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><strong>Fitbit &amp; health apps.\u00a0<\/strong>That data from your fitbit gets stored somewhere and if it was collected and stored by a health care provider, it would be protected information.\u00a0<\/li>\n<li><strong>Medical billing companies<\/strong><\/li>\n<li><strong>Medical Transcription Services.<\/strong><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><strong>What kind of enforcement actions are being considered for this health care app data?<\/strong>\u00a0Regulators are looking for <strong>reasonable &amp; appropriate\u00a0data storage and data security protection.\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.healthdatamanagement.com\/news\/ftc-steps-up-privacy-security-protection-of-consumer-health-data\">Health Data Management |\u00a0FTC steps up protection of consumer health data<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p><strong>What entities are the new targets for data security enforcement?\u00a0<\/strong>HIPPA adjacent health and wellness companies.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p><strong>Why are HIPPA adjacent health and wellness companies the focus of regulators?<\/strong>\u00a0These companies collect and store personal health information. For example:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><strong>Fitbit &amp; health apps.\u00a0<\/strong>That data from your fitbit gets stored somewhere and if it was collected and stored by a health care provider, it would be protected information.\u00a0<\/li>\n<li><strong>Medical billing companies<\/strong><\/li>\n<li><strong>Medical Transcription&#8230;<\/strong><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2,13,24,18],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-418","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-data-privacy","category-health-care-data","category-private-corporations","category-regulatory-enforcement","entry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/informedintel.com\/account\/datasecurity\/wp-datasecurity\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/418","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/informedintel.com\/account\/datasecurity\/wp-datasecurity\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/informedintel.com\/account\/datasecurity\/wp-datasecurity\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/informedintel.com\/account\/datasecurity\/wp-datasecurity\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/informedintel.com\/account\/datasecurity\/wp-datasecurity\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=418"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/informedintel.com\/account\/datasecurity\/wp-datasecurity\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/418\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/informedintel.com\/account\/datasecurity\/wp-datasecurity\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=418"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/informedintel.com\/account\/datasecurity\/wp-datasecurity\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=418"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/informedintel.com\/account\/datasecurity\/wp-datasecurity\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=418"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}