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Show HN: Kate's App

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Caregiving is a natural, human act of compassion and caring, and most of us, at some point, will rely on someone to help us with our health care (> 70%) or be tasked with helping someone else (> 10%).

Kate's App is a tool to coordinate doctor contact information, prescriptions, pharmacies, appointments, notes, and other information with family and caregivers, and do it safely and privately. This is not a clinic portal, and is not associated with any insurance or medical providers.

The app is 95% complete, and is entirely usable as is (for any interested beta users). I intend to clean up the rest of it, and go GA within a few weeks. In the meantime, I would love to answer any questions or hear helpful critiques.

BTW, Show HN is the best.

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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... as a starting point. We might be able to recommend a lawyer to you if you tell us which state you're located in.

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Yeah... this is a lawsuit waiting to happen. Medical data is NOT something you handle with a hobby project.

No privacy policy, no real information about the owner behind it. Seems all "trust me, it's private, I pinky swear".

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Yeah... this is a lawsuit waiting to happen. Medical data is NOT something you handle with a hobby project. No privacy policy, no real information about the owner behind it. Seems all "trust me, it's private, I pinky swear".

If it was all running locally, I could see someone getting away with it, possibly. At this point, it's just a tool?

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#6
Great idea!

- What country/ies do you accept users from and which jurisdiction do you store their data in?

- Get a HIPPA/GDPR/PHIPA audit by a legal professional ASAP!

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Yeah... this is a lawsuit waiting to happen. Medical data is NOT something you handle with a hobby project. No privacy policy, no real information about the owner behind it. Seems all "trust me, it's private, I pinky swear".

That, and also let me tell you about a thing called margins. They help text not run into the edges of the screen.

I don't blame you for not using them though since evidently you never looked at your page on mobile ;)

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Yeah... this is a lawsuit waiting to happen. Medical data is NOT something you handle with a hobby project. No privacy policy, no real information about the owner behind it. Seems all "trust me, it's private, I pinky swear".

If it was all running locally, I could see someone getting away with it, possibly. At this point, it's just a tool?

Yeah; self-hosted and open source I would be more open to it. This is just kinda sketchy.

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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?
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