2015 came to an end and we at Chino.io are curious to see what 2016 will bring for digital healthcare in the EU. Last year a lot of things happened in this area and we would like to highlight the most important ones.

Processing sensitive data like, healthcare is risky. In the case of violations of rules, Data Controllers can incur into civil, administrative, and in some states even criminal sanctions. Depending on how Apps and services are distributed, Data Controllers can be represented by different figures.

Il trattamento dei dati personali e sensibili come quelli sanitari è un’attività a rischio.

Some time ago we attended the Frontiers Health, the healthcare innovation edition of Frontiers Conferences. Designed to provide a unique platform to learn, exchange and get inspired on the topics of digital disruption and technologies in healthcare.

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

The General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) unifies the legal framework at the EU level and focuses on new technologies to establish the lawful processing of users' data.

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.