The Healthcare Insurance Portability and Accountability Act (HIPAA) is one of the more complex regulations in the U.S., due in no small part to the complicated and open-ended nature of the law.
What should companies do? In this case, covered organizations are turning to risk-based assessments to help them support their security approaches.
Here, we will discuss how risk plays a role in the rule of HIPAA law.
The complexity of healthcare service demands robust technical infrastructure. Advances in patient treatment, research, diagnostic tools and even predictive analytics and AI have pushed technologies available to healthcare providers, which means that these organizations turn to expert providers to give them new tools and features to revolutionize their patient care models. This increased reliance on Cloud Service Providers (CSPs) or a Managed Service Providers (MSP) means that these organizations must rely on HIPAA-compliant technologies, which means counting on HIPAA-compliant vendors to provide them.
Here, we discuss why HIPAA compliance is so important to MSPs, and why MSPs must not only be compliant but work with security experts and compliant partners as part of their operations.
HIPAA compliance can be one of the most challenging tasks a company undertakes, and failure to comply is the most impactful and punitive in terms of fees and penalties. Many new organizations getting into compliance might, in turn, feel overwhelmed by the requirements of the framework and the three primary HIPAA rules.
Here, we’ll breakdown the basics of HIPAA compliance for new organizations and what they need to think about in preparing for a compliance strategy.