The Office of the National Coordinator for Health Information Technology has inaugurated a challenge for software developers, health data privacy professionals and other stakeholders to update and modify the voluntary Model HIPAA Privacy Notice to be more applicable in today’s mobile health atmosphere.
“The health information technology market has changed significantly in the past 5 years, and there is now a larger variety of products, like mobile applications and wearable devices, that gather digital health information,” ONC elaborates.
Some $35,000 in prizes will be granted in the challenge to establish new HIPAA privacy notice; entries should be submitted to the Challenge.gov website by the day of April 10.
ONC needs participants to utilize content from the existing Model Privacy Notice template “to establish an online tool that can produce a user-friendly snapshot of a product’s privacy practices,” in accordance to ONC. The content will assist developers to create a HIPAA privacy notice that is more convenient to understand.
The current model privacy notice dates back to the year of 2011. It was established in concert with the Federal Trade Commission and focused on personal health records, which were an emerging technology at the time period.
For the latest notice, ONC in the month of March 2016 asked stakeholders for ideas on privacy and security practices that should be on the new notice and how to explain the practices. These comments should assist to inform developers in the new project, ONC stated. Further information is available here.
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