Sandstorm for Mobile and Healthcare

[Bjoern DEMEYER]

For the purpose of use by my employer, I'm wondering if Sandstorm would be a good platform to serve as a back end for mobile applications, particularly for healthcare. It seems like it would be easier to keep each patient's file secure. Also while I have to self-host for privacy reasons, it also seems a lot easier to host than Kubernetes, etc.

Kind Regards, BDM.

[Jacob Weisz]

I think Sandstorm is great for healthcare! I think there's a bunch of compliance needs that you can meet with a Sandstorm server which might otherwise need multiple external tools. And for a smaller office, Sandstorm being easy to host on a single small box (I use a NUC personally) is pretty handy.

I would say Sandstorm's own web UI is not well-optimized on mobile. Many apps work fine via mobile browsers, but it isn't the best experience. But as long as you can connect a mobile application to an HTTP API, it would work very well as a backend. TinyTinyRSS is a great example: The Sandstorm app itself doesn't work well on mobile browsers, but there are dozens of great TTRSS apps that work great, and can connect to the Sandstorm app.

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On Mon, Feb 26, 2024, at 12:35 AM, Bjoern DEMEYER wrote:

For the purpose of use by my employer, I'm wondering if Sandstorm would be a good platform to serve as a back end for mobile applications, particularly for healthcare. It seems like it would be easier to keep each patient's file secure. Also while I have to self-host for privacy reasons, it also seems a lot easier to host than Kubernetes, etc.

Kind Regards, BDM.

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[Dan Krol]

Wouldn't it need a specific vetting for compliance?

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[Jacob Weisz]

I am not a lawyer or a healthcare professional, but I don't believe software or services are inherently certified or vetted as HIPAA compliant, and it falls on the healthcare provider to ensure they are operating in a HIPAA-compliant manner regardless of the tools they use.

https://github.com/truevault-safe/hipaa-compliance-developers-guide/blob/master/06%20Who%20Certifies%20HIPAA%20Compliance%3F.md

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