HIPAA | The Health Insurance Probability and Accountability Act

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What is HIPAA?

HIPAA is a regulation that standardizes the storage and transmission of personal medical information to prevent unwanted disclosure.

Based on the understanding that patients have a right to privacy regarding their medical information, HIPAA is designed to protect sensitive patient information while allowing patients to benefit from technology in their healthcare service.

While HIPAA was initially introduced as a US federal law and applied to US-based organizations, regulators and other authorities began to apply its requirements outside the US over time. Today, HIPAA effectively serves as an international standard for medical database management.

Hermeticon has vast experience with information security regulatory compliance and standard certification processes. Our consultants are highly knowledgeable in information security

standards and their implementation. Our CISO-certified experts can provide clients with elegant and actionable solutions that address their unique needs.

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What are the main requirements of this regulation, and who must comply?

This regulation is similar to ISO 27001, the international standard for information security management. Its requirements pertain to implementing security systems, policies, and procedures, detecting risks, and raising information security awareness within the organization.

Organizations in the healthcare sector (e.g., healthcare providers, health data systems, and healthcare payment systems) must be HIPAA compliant, and requirements are scalable and flexible, depending on the size and structure of the organization.

Israel is one of the many countries that chose to embrace HIPAA. Israeli companies that provide services and/or products to US healthcare companies must be HIPAA compliant.

Assessing your compliance:

Hermeticon offers an easy way to check if your organization is HIPAA compliant thoroughly.

To prepare a work plan for eliminating your compliance gaps, our experts will assess three main areas in your organization:

• Systems that work with medical information: access permissions, the login method and credentials, user management, reporting, control routes, input testing, and more.
• Your IT infrastructure: backups, database security, access control and management, hardening tests, and more.
• Information security in your organization: procedures, training about the importance of information security, a separation between a customer’s (or patient’s) personal details and medical records, user and access permission control, backup integrity control, incident documentation, change management, and a business continuity plan.

At the end of the process, you will receive an expert opinion concerning your organization’s (or product’s) compliance with the law.

Risk assessment and risk management:

Risk management is a mandatory part of HIPAA compliance. Your organization must identify all existing and potential risks, assess the risk level and possible consequences, and address each risk as quickly as possible.

HIPAA and Cloud Computing:

While some say HIPAA and cloud computing do not go together, if you put the right procedures and internal processes in place and plan your IT environment correctly, you can be HIPAA-compliant and work with cloud computing.

The process is far from simple, but with intelligent planning and support from Hermeticon’s experts, it can be done.

Need to know how much flexibility your organization has with HIPAA compliance? Get in touch with our experts today, and you will get clear, professional answers and comprehensive support throughout the process.