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Prescription for Connected Device and Telehealth Developers: Focus on Actua

Earlier this year, the Cloud Security Alliance put out a very interesting whitepaper addressing the need for increased scrutiny of telehealth data in the cloud. It reminded me of an article posted on this very site back in 2017, about the myriad compliance and privacy issues surrounding the development of mobile health apps. In the age of COVID-19, medical application and device developers are challenged with increasingly multifaceted requirements for effective management and processing of sensitive health data.

Since these services are transmitting a lot of patient data to cloud services, application security engineers must bake end-to-end security and compliance into the architecture.

There are two takeaways here: With the increased use of health telemetry in the cloud, connected devices and telehealth service developers must adequately and proactively address data, privacy, and security issues.