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HIPAA is known across the healthcare industry as a mandatory regulation, requiring strict security practices to maintain. Let us show you how Briskinfosec would simplify compliance for your business. Services provides for healthcare providers with the policies, procedures, and tools to reduce their exposure to HIPAA compliance violations in relation to their IT infrastructure.
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HIPAA stands for Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act, which is a set of regulations concerning the handling of medical information, including privacy and security. The regulation requires that any companies handling healthcare data, from hospitals to insurance companies, must comply with HIPAA security standards when transmitting and storing electronic protected health information (ePHI).
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Compliance with HIPAA standards is required of all healthcare businesses due to the sensitive nature of information handled by these companies. A single cyber-attack on a health-related business can result in lost or stolen data that has broad ramifications on the health, safety and financial security of patients, and these attacks are becoming both more frequent and more aggressive. Failing to comply with HIPAA standards can result in severe consequences for healthcare businesses, including:
These factors mean HIPAA compliance is an absolute must. While these regulations won’t protect against all threats your healthcare business might face, they pose a strong baseline off of which your business can build. The first step, however, is to achieve HIPAA compliance.
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To help with this particular section of HIPAA security, healthcare businesses can employ HIPAA compliant services from a managed cyber security service provider like Briskinfosec
The system includes several functions and abilities that help healthcare businesses address key HIPAA requirements around log management and monitoring, including:
No one product will guarantee HIPAA compliance for your business, but the right combination of systems can make all the difference.
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HIPAA (The Health Information Portability and Accountability Act) is a federal mandate that, among other things, requires organizations to keep patient data secure. Compliance requires a myriad of privacy and security actions outlined in the mandate’s specific rules, such as password policy creation, patient data protection, and employee training.
Any covered entity (CE) or business associate (BA) that stores, processes, transmits, maintains, or touches protected health information (PHI) in any way must be compliant.
Examples of covered entities include any healthcare service provider such as a hospital, pharmacy, or physician.
Examples of BAs are persons or entities that provide services to a CE that involve the disclosure of PHI, such as a medical records vendor, prosthetic manufacturer, or outside medical consultant.
Compliance will look a little different at every organization, but most entities will complete a risk analysis, create and complete a risk management plan, conduct regular employee training, and implement updated policies and procedures.
Both the healthcare organization and individual staff members who accesses PHI are responsible. The organization is responsible to put all necessary safeguards in place for HIPAA compliance. Every individual (office manager, doctor, etc.) is held responsible for health information they should, can, or do access. Individuals and companies can independently face criminal charges for mishandling PHI.
The HIPAA Privacy Rule addresses appropriate PHI use and disclosure practices by healthcare organizations. The same rules, regulations and policies that regulate Privacy do not necessarily extend to the Security Rule. The HIPAA Security Rule revolves around safeguarding the systems that house or transmit PHI.
The Department of Health and Human Services’ (HHS) Office for Civil Rights (OCR) is the federal organization responsible for enforcing HIPAA compliance.
If you are found in violation of HIPAA, both the HHS and state attorney general’s can levy fines against you. In fact, the HHS assesses fees of up to $50,000 per day per violation.
If noncompliance leads to a breach, you are required by law to notify the HHS, your patients, and, if more than 500 records are involved, the media. This could severely damage brand equity and publicly embarrass your organization.
Each failure to follow one or more of the HIPAA standards, requirements, or implementation specifications is considered a violation. HIPAA violation examples: sharing passwords among nurses, not using an industry-standard firewall, and not encrypting emailed patient data are all separate violations.
The HHS expects healthcare providers to actively work on their HIPAA compliance and tests them through organizational audits. An entity could be chosen for a HIPAA compliance audit at random, or because of a reported breach by an employee or customer. The best way to prepare for an audit is by having an aggressive and fully functional HIPAA compliance program already in place.
Contact the HHS immediately following discovery of the breach, and they’ll tell you what to do next. You can report a breach here. See Breach Notification Rule protocols.
A business associate agreement (BAA) is a contract required for any business associate that receives patient data from either a covered entity, or from another business associate. Covered entities and business associates are responsible for having proper business associate agreements in place. It’s their job to draft BAAs that meet their own requirements, as well as HIPAA requirements.
A HIPAA compliance certificate shows that you have completed all the necessary requirements your individual HIPAA consultant requires. Although this document doesn’t disqualify you for random HHS audits, it does show your willingness to make demonstrable progress towards HIPAA compliance.
We help the healthcare entities achieve lasting HIPAA compliance. We offer a guided HIPAA Risk Analysis (the first and most important step toward compliance), HIPAA compliance, HIPAA audits, HIPAA policy templates, HIPAA training, and other security services.
For more information on how our Briskinfosec penetration testing services can help safeguard your organisation, call us now on +91 860 863 4123 or request a call back using the form below.