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Say I'm a solo web developer and I've built informational websites for some doctors' offices and small hospitals. They want to have simple patient referral and appointment request forms on their websites (mostly they still do that stuff by phone and fax), but in order to comply with HIPAA, I'd have to adopt a whole bunch of infrastructure above and beyond the couple of semi-managed VPSs I have now, not to mention paperwork and self-audits and so forth. (Or at least that's my understanding.)

Is this Healthcare API just targeted at people building full-blown EMRs or is there something here that would help me handle small amounts of PHI like in the above scenarios?

Going by the examples on the pricing page, this looks like it would be massively cheaper than e.g. TrueVault [0] (who don't seem to publish their prices any more but IIRC start out in the thousands per month), if indeed this could be an alternative to TrueVault.

[0] https://www.truevault.com/pricing

parent evunveot 7 years ago

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