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01-11-2017, 10:03 AM
Apple enhances security options for its CareKit apps
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Apple is upping security options for its health apps.*
The tech giant has partnered with the security firm Tresorit to offer developers using Apple's CareKit (http://www.apple.com/researchkit/) platform increased privacy options, helping reach HIPAA compliance.*
Tresorit's security tech**logy, called ZeroKit (https://tresorit.com/zerokit/carekit), will offer user authentication for patients and healthcare workers, end-to-end encryption of health data, and "zero k**wledge" sharing of health data, in which data isn't shared with any service as it transfers.
SEE ALSO: Apple's India woes continue, government denies giving any special tax concessions (http://mashable.com/2017/01/06/apple-india-local-manufacturing-government-reluctant/?utm_campaign=Mash-Prod-RSS-Feedburner-All-Partial&utm_cid=Mash-Prod-RSS-Feedburner-All-Partial)
End-to-end encryption is used for cloud storage, messaging and other services but hasn't been widely adopted in healthcare apps, Tresorit senior vice president David Szabo told Mashable. Data is encrypted before it is uploaded to the cloud and that encryption key never leaves the user's device. Read more... (http://mashable.com/2017/01/11/apple-zerokit-security-carekit/?utm_campaign=Mash-Prod-RSS-Feedburner-All-Partial&utm_cid=Mash-Prod-RSS-Feedburner-All-Partial)
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Apple is upping security options for its health apps.*
The tech giant has partnered with the security firm Tresorit to offer developers using Apple's CareKit (http://www.apple.com/researchkit/) platform increased privacy options, helping reach HIPAA compliance.*
Tresorit's security tech**logy, called ZeroKit (https://tresorit.com/zerokit/carekit), will offer user authentication for patients and healthcare workers, end-to-end encryption of health data, and "zero k**wledge" sharing of health data, in which data isn't shared with any service as it transfers.
SEE ALSO: Apple's India woes continue, government denies giving any special tax concessions (http://mashable.com/2017/01/06/apple-india-local-manufacturing-government-reluctant/?utm_campaign=Mash-Prod-RSS-Feedburner-All-Partial&utm_cid=Mash-Prod-RSS-Feedburner-All-Partial)
End-to-end encryption is used for cloud storage, messaging and other services but hasn't been widely adopted in healthcare apps, Tresorit senior vice president David Szabo told Mashable. Data is encrypted before it is uploaded to the cloud and that encryption key never leaves the user's device. Read more... (http://mashable.com/2017/01/11/apple-zerokit-security-carekit/?utm_campaign=Mash-Prod-RSS-Feedburner-All-Partial&utm_cid=Mash-Prod-RSS-Feedburner-All-Partial)
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