India's DPDP Act 2023 and the US HIPAA both protect health information, but they apply in different territories and work very differently. HIPAA governs Protected Health Information held by US healthcare entities; the DPDP Act governs the digital personal data (including health data) of individuals in India. An Indian hospital, diagnostics chain or health-tech firm is governed by the DPDP Act; a company serving US patients may also need HIPAA. This checker shows which law applies to you.
Compare India's DPDP Act 2023 with US HIPAA and find out which applies to your patient and health data.
Partly. Strong HIPAA controls — access management, encryption, audit logging, breach procedures — give you a head start on the DPDP Act's 'reasonable security safeguards'. But the DPDP Act has different definitions, a consent-first model, distinct Data Principal rights, and its own breach-notification mechanism through the Data Protection Board of India.
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