HIPAA Compliance

Securing Protected Health Information

The Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act (HIPAA) includes provisions to maintain the privacy of protected health information (PHI). The HIPAA rules apply to covered entities, which include medical providers, employer health plans and insurance companies that deal with patient data.

Health Information Technology for Economic and Clinical Health Act (HITECH) expanded the HIPAA rules related to the use and disclosure of PHI, appropriate safeguards to protect PHI.

HIPAA requirements mean you have to deal with several challenges:

• Targeted threats: Attacks specifically designed to compromise healthcare networks and steal protected health information (PHI)
• Non-stop Operations: IT teams need to constantly keep networks updated, patched and configured correctly
• Resources gap: Skilled security resources required to perform security testing,  risk assessments, and enforce security rules are difficult to find and retain

The Alert Logic approach to HIPAA and HIPAA-HITECH compliance helps you to:

• Implement administrative and technical safeguards you need to be HIPAA and HIPAA-HITECH compliant
• Detect and prevent network intrusions, identify vulnerabilities and misconfigurations that might expose personal health information due to insufficient data protection.
• Find suspicious- or active-breach activity, with alerts within 15 minutes, from our security operations center

And, we provide 24x7 network security monitoring, expert analysis, and guidance on events and incidents, allowing scarce IT resources to stay focused on business-critical projects. Our security operations center will alert you about suspicious activity or active breaches that may impact data such as patient information, within 15-minutes.