The Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act (HIPAA) is technically known as Public Law 104-191 of 1996. The intent of the legislation was to "simplify" the way the healthcare industry does business through the standardization of electronic exchanges. Additional benefits of the consistent exchange of information would be realized financially via cost savings from the elimination of print-based record transactions. This paper will explain how an organization should go about assessing its current state of security preparedness by using the methodologies from a standard security assessment and overlaying the HIPAA security requirements as they relate to electronic information protection. The paper will also presume that an external security company would be conducting the security assessment.
Did you find this white paper useful?
18 out of 50 users found this white paper useful
Related white papers
Contingency Planning: Meeting HIPAA Security Rule Requirements
Contingency planning, also referred to as Business Continuity Planning (BCP), is about a coordinated strategy that involves plans, procedures and technical measures to enable the recovery of systems, operations, and...
Perl Tackles HIPAA Compliancy at SUNY Upstate Medical University
With Federal Mandated HIPAA compliancy, there have been many hurdles which the SUNY Upstate Medical University needed to cross to become compliant, including migrating their existing Practice Management system. With...
Hospitals and Medical Clinics
This scene, common in hospitals and busy medical clinics, highlights several problems in today's healthcare system that can lead to poor patient experiences, extra stress on the healthcare staff, and...
Solution Selling: Healthcare
A medical information management company processes medical claims for various medical services providers. These forms are filled out by hand and sent by courier or fax to the centralized processing...
Effective Corporate E-Mail Compliance
E-mail has become the single most important method of communication in today's business environment. However, concerns surrounding corporate communication policy, intellectual property leaks and government regulatory compliance threaten to limit...
Winning the Next Leg of the IT Compliance Race
Through this webcast, the viewer will learn how to identify the key processes that affect IT compliance. The webcast shows how to build a governance structure to manage those processes...
The Case for Archiving Email: A MessageLabs White Paper by Osterman Research
This paper discusses how email archiving benefits an organization for purposes other than regulatory compliance, & why archiving is becoming a best practice for an organization to follow regardless of...
