HIPAA compliance

Amazon Alexa celebrates HIPAA-compliant data transfer with six new healthcare skills

By Dave Muoio 02:09 pm April 4, 2019

Earlier this morning, Amazon announced in a blog post that its voice-based Alexa platform now supports the development of software that communicates HIPAA-protected health information through an invite-only Alexa Skills Kit program. To kick off the new capability, the company also highlighted the launch of six new Alexa skills built by healthcare providers and other stakeholders. Each is designed...

Fitbit becomes HIPAA-compliant, signs Target, unveils large-scale challenge feature

By Jonah Comstock 11:04 am September 16, 2015

Fitbit Surge Fitbit's Corporate Wellness arm officially became a HIPAA compliant platform, announced Target as a new client, which will offer Fitbits to its 335,000 US employees, and showed off a new software offering that will facilitate fitness competitions among employees in large, distributed companies. Fitbit Wellness has been around almost since the beginning, but is lately one of the ...