Home based check-ups offered by health apps will be better vetted by a comprehensive certification programme from DirectTrust.
Whilst applications are used to interact with patients and deliver care services and test results in mainstream healthcare services, there are an abundance of third-party apps on the web that promise to enhance our bodies’ performance without sufficient vetting of how they manage sensitive medical data.
DirectTrust is concerned with the assurance of apps springing up around the vicinity of physical healthcare services. The power coupling of CARIN’s code of conduct with DirectTrust’s programme – which verification of companies that attest to the code – delivers the full trust around apps as traditional healthcare.
Offering patient privacy with their data on these apps underpins the Health App Accreditation Program, which launched this week. It is an adjustment on the criteria of the Trusted Dynamic Registration & Authentication Accreditation Programs (TDRAAP) enhancing compliance and aligning with the needs of health app developers seeking accreditation.
With your data in HIPAA, more “security, privacy, consent, and control” over personal health information in an application can be assured by self-attesting to the Code and seeking certification via DirectTrust.
Scott Stuewe, President and CEO, DirectTrust said: “We’re excited to launch an accreditation specifically created for Health App stakeholder criteria. TDRAAP was developed several years ago to address many similar criteria, and since then the standard that supports these capabilities, UDAP™, has continued to gain industry-wide recognition”
“Taking the current environment into consideration, we believe a general Health App accreditation is needed, as well as restructuring the elements related to UDAP into their own unique accreditation programs. Creating and realigning these programs enhances our commitment to advancing trust in health data exchange for all stakeholders.”
DirectTrust’s accreditation and certification programs are governed by the organisation’s Electronic Healthcare Network Accreditation Commission (EHNAC) that set the core requirements for measuring an organisation’s ability to align with federal and state healthcare reform mandates such as HIPAA/HITECH, 21st Century Cures Act, TEFCA and more.
Moreover, these programmes ensure that healthcare organisations meet or exceed digital identity guidelines like NIST SP 800-63.
