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Re: Show HN: Kate's App

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Post by otterley »

roegerle wrote: post #9
otterley wrote: post #3

If you're dealing with personal health information (PHI), I would advise you to temporarily close your site and hire a lawyer straight away. Whenever you touch this kind of data, regulatory regimes like HIPAA may apply, and you need to be extremely careful. There's not a HIPAA compliance or even a privacy policy statement available on your front page. See https://www.hhs.gov/hipaa/for-professionals/privacy/laws-reg..…

Are they a covered entity?

That's not for any of us to determine here. A lawyer can answer that.

Re: Show HN: Kate's App

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Post by curious_cat_163 »

I think you might want to heed the advice about privacy regulations in the other threads.

Just thought, I'd share what I think about the substance of the idea (not the implementation). I think a big untold story in the US healthcare system is how it shifts the burden of coordinating care to patients and/or their loved ones.

To be sure, there is a lot of decisions that the individual (or their NoK) should be making but the amount of paperwork that flies around and lack of coordination between say an insurance company and the provider is astounding. This becomes very pronounced for every corner case and the entire machinery is wired to record things in myriad systems but somehow not make things better when it comes to the core outcomes -- providing healthcare. Every entity in the food chain is out to (and does!) make a buck. Meanwhile, there is a wait time of > 30 days to meet one's primary care physician over a video chat!

So, I absolutely LOVE your idea. The implementation probably requires a lot of iterations here. One suspects that there are ways in which a consumer facing app could make some real money to level the playing field in favor of the patient while being a sustainable busienss.

Re: Show HN: Kate's App

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Post by gwbas1c »

I don't want to repeat other comments here; but this app smells of a very dangerous attitude: Built with love by novices with grand intentions, with complete blindness to the real consequences that happen when novices are ignorant in their field.

If your goal is to "find a learning project," I suggest finding a very different "learning project." Otherwise, keep "Kate's app" private, word-of-mouth, invite-only for under 20 people.

The 1980s and 1990s are long-gone, you can no longer "learn as you go" when the consequences of your application malfunctioning have real-world implications.

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A few years ago, my employer used an HR app that appeared built by a novice. In that time period; they sent me a PDF with tax information for half the people in the company; and then they royally screwed up the tax information sent to the IRS for me.

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Post by warkdarrior »

TrainedMonkey wrote: post #2

Who owns the data and where it is stored?

Also, how identifiable is the data? Can a (US state) government agency subpoena data for individual users?

Does the app/company fall under HIPAA regulation? If it does, what security & privacy measures are in place to guarantee compliance? If it does not, what security & privacy measures are in place to prevent government fishing expeditions?

Finally, what security & privacy measures are in place to prevent app developer having a change of heart about selling the data? What if, say, United Healthcare offers to buy the app and the data for $1B?

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