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A developers guide to HIPAA compliance and application development.

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What about a completely offline desktop application?

tanin47 opened this issue · comments

It doesn't send anything through the wire nor store anything online. A user may import patient data and export it back on the local machine. I assume this is fine assuming the machine itself is hipaa compliant.

So, I have a question: for an completely offline desktop application, can we say it is hipaa compliant?

Thank you!

You cannot say it's HIPAA compliant by default. HIPAA applies to PII/PHI regardless of its form (e.g., paper, electronic) or how it's transmitted, stored or shared.