Is the iPhone HIPAA compliant?

[ItsJustafnPhone]

the short answer is that it depends on the hospital/ software you are using

you will not find your answer here

what works at a county hospital may not work at a VA hospital etc

 

[GoCubsGo]

The iPhone has all the needed security to be HIPAA compliant. HIPAA compliance is more of a set of rules and procedures and not a hardware based issue.

Exactly. I don't think it has to do with hardware so much as it has to do with software.

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[iceterminal]

The iPhone can be set up to be HIPAA compliant according to its standards and requirements.
A few small settings to do so:
Have the passcode enabled.
Set security to wipe phone after 10 incorrect attempts.
Find my iPhone enabled.
Email account passwords not saved automatically.

These are generic for the phone itself. If you use apps, and they pass data, it has to be secured in some fashion such as only on an internal network, etc.

We have iPhone usage in many many hospitals and VA centers (gov't)

 

[ReallyBigFeet]

Using just the stock iOS apps, it's not HIPPA compliant. But there are many enterprise apps that make the entire iPhone compliant. Unfortunately, they all pretty much turn your iPhone into a less-functional Blackberry, lock them down, disable iTunes synching, disable the App store, etc.

But specific apps can be designed to enforce HIPPA compliance, leaving everything else alone outside that applications secure sandbox.. Most of these just enforce that all data storage be done on remote servers that can be locked down.