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End-to-end encryption option added to CareKit, allows greater use by hospitals

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<p>Apple has partnered with a security company to add full end-to-end encryption to <a href="https://9to5mac.com/guides/carekit/" target="_blank">CareKit[/url] data, making it easier for hospitals to use the platform while remaining compliant with patient data regulations. CareKit allows patients to choose to share health data from an app on their iPhone with the physicians treating them.</p>
<p>While CareKit data is already encrypted by default, it doesn’t use full end-to-end encryption, meaning that any data stored on cloud services would be open to decryption by the owners of that service. <a href="http://mashable.com/2017/01/11/apple-zerokit-security-carekit/" target="_blank">Buzzfeed[/url] reports that Apple is partnering with security firm Tresorit to offer better encryption options to developers – but this won’t necessarily mean that all CareKit programs adopt it …</p>
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