Digital Health applications collecting personal and sensitive data must comply with Data Protection Laws. For application developers identifying relevant laws, extracting rules and obligations and implementing them within their applications could be extremely challenging, expensive and risky.

According to the EU Commission, mHealth (Mobile Health) covers health practice supported by mobile devices, monitoring devices, and other wireless devices.

As a digital health application developer, you need to keep this new right into consideration.

Every **Digital Health App** processes **personal data** and most will also process health sensitive data. Processing such data requires you to be compliant with relevant data protection laws. How do you do that as a Digital Health Business? Here are the key things you have to consider.

Under GDPR law, sensitive data is in a much higher risk category than other types of personal data. Businesses that store sensitive health data should focus on GDPR administrative and technical recuirenments.

Potentially sensitive data, such as that generated by wellbeing apps, is a "grey area” where the GDPR classification is open for interpretation.

Encryption is often poorly understood, with many companies claiming that what they do is “the most secure”. Here, we provide a summary of main encryption methods and describe which to use to ensure GDPR and HIPAA compliance for your health applications.

No data security is ever foolproof. There is always a weak link in the security chain, and all too often that link is a human. In this blog, we look at some of these human factors and suggest ways you can help to reduce these risks.

Last week Chino.io were at DMEA in Berlin. DMEA (formerly ConhIT) is the largest conference for connected eHealth in Europe. Chino.io attended as part of the Berlin Partner stand.