WordPress for HIPAA and ePHI? Is that a good idea?
Tuesday, February 12th, 2013For a deep dive, see our white paper: Securing WordPress
WordPress is an extremely popular content management system for both blogging and creating web sites. It’s popular because it is quick to set up, easy to administer, has a very large supported base of add-ons, and looks good. As a result, many LuxSci customers use WordPress in one fashion or another for their web sites hosted at LuxSci.
As we cater to a large segment of customers who have specific compliance needs, e.g. HIPAA compliance, we frequently are asked about using WordPress with ePHI … e.g. using WordPress to provide access to protected health information for members of the WordPress site.
Can this be compliant? Is it a good idea?
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