If your organization collects, stores or processes electronic protected health information (ePHI) it will need a clear understanding of business associate agreements (BAAs). This also applies to businesses that process ePHI on behalf of other organizations. Each business associate agreement stipulates how a company will share its ePHI with the respective business associate, and where […]
Are your organization’s service providers HIPAA compliant, or are they only quasi-HIPAA compliant? What do we mean? Okay, we’ll be honest – quasi-HIPAA compliant isn’t an accepted term yet – but it should be. When we talk about quasi-compliance, we’re referring to setups and services that look HIPAA-compliant and share some of the features; however, they […]
Because Amazon Web Services (AWS) is very inexpensive, very well known, and offers “HIPAA-compliant” solutions to some degree, we are often asked if, and to what degree, Amazon Simple Email Service (SES) is HIPAA compliant. AWS is a big player offering countless services on which companies can build and/or host applications and infrastructures. One of the […]
Protected health information (PHI) is heavily regulated under HIPAA, but the exact details can be confusing. The regulations are designed to keep everyone’s private information safe, but they also put a significant amount of responsibility on businesses. HIPAA regulations apply to just about every aspect of a person’s medical information, including their transit, storage and […]
HIPAA-compliant cloud storage complies with the Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act of 1996 (HIPAA) to ensure the security of healthcare patients’ data stored on remote servers accessed from the internet. HIPAA governs how healthcare providers and their business associates, as defined in the Act, can store, manage, and share personal health information (PHI). If […]
