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.

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

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.

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.

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

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

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.