October 22, 2020 by Richard Bailey under HIPAA Compliant Hosting
A HIPAA API is an Application Programming Interface (API) that is used to control interactions with healthcare applications, systems, and websites that handle protected health information and are subject to HIPAA (the Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act).
January 8, 2019 by Editorial Team under HIPAA Compliant Hosting
One of the problems with our increasingly technological world is that the speed at which our devices and services upgrade and make older versions obsolete can be dizzying. It feels like only an instant before the latest smartphone or flatscreen TV is being replaced with the bigger, better, faster model. The same holds true in […]
July 23, 2015 by Editorial Team under HIPAA Compliant Hosting
How do you comply with the Health insurance Portability and Accountability Act (HIPAA)? This article covers the four essential elements of the regulations. It also discusses myths associated with the fundamental compliance testing method security risk analysis – most notably, a HIPAA risk analysis checklist is insufficient for compliance.
July 20, 2015 by Editorial Team under HIPAA Compliant Hosting
If you’re looking at IT requirements for healthcare systems, a term that you will come across repeatedly is “HIPAA compliance.” This article talks about HIPAA, summarizes the basic HIPAA compliance rules, and briefly addresses a related act, HITECH.
July 15, 2015 by Editorial Team under HIPAA Compliant Hosting
There are plenty of checklists and guidebooks out there related to HIPAA compliance. However, it helps to go to the source to see what specific HIPAA controls are necessary to safeguard protected health information. Here are specific details on how to follow the Security Rule, as indicated directly by HHS guidelines: Basic Guidelines Vulnerability Assessments […]
July 14, 2015 by Editorial Team under HIPAA Compliant Hosting
We all want simplicity, but there’s no getting around that compliance with the Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act of 1996 is complicated. However, you can use a couple of checklists along with penetration testing of your system to verify that you have hit all the bases.
July 13, 2015 by Editorial Team under HIPAA Compliant Hosting
Rather than just listing HIPAA-compliant software, this report gives advice on all the fundamentals, along with a few misconceptions about the kind of robust security environment that is necessary to maintain HIPAA compliant hosting. Proper Network Segregation Tackling Encryption But That’s Not All… HIPAA Compliant Antivirus & Proper Network Segregation Security via obfuscation is not […]
