HIPAA in a nutshell

The Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act (HIPAA) is a US law that establishes requirements for processing protected health data.  Institutions that collect or process these data in the USA and their subcontractors must comply with HIPAA if they want to avoid sanctions. For European companies in particular, HIPAA is a regulation that is difficult to understand…

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Formative evaluation: What the FDA and IEC 62366 require

The regulations relevant to usability engineering require formative evaluations. 1. Formative evaluation: Definition and differentiation a) Definitions In its guidance document, the FDA has published its own definition of the term: Thus, it replaces the old definition in the guideline Applying Human Factors and Usability Engineering to Medical Devices: „Process of assessing, at one or…

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