Healthcare Compliance Requirements

Healthcare organizations have historically struggled to securely transition from their analog roots of pen and paper to the more agile digital world that other industries have long since adopted. The rigors of the regulatory compliance surrounding electronic Protected Health Information (ePHI) places a tremendous burden on healthcare organizations to ensure that they both understand the vulnerabilities that they face, and have a security plan to effectively address them. That’s why Awareness Technologies has focused its development on delivering managed solutions that lift the burden of compliance and security off of the shoulders of the organizations themselves.


Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act (HIPAA)

The Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act, or HIPAA, was passed and finalized in 1996. The Act sets national standards for the protection of individual medical information. The act was passed by Congress as a response to the growing concern of easy accessibility to patient information.

In February of 2009, President Obama signed the Health Information Technology for Economic and Clinical Health Act (HITECH). This act extends certain aspects of HIPAA regarding security and privacy requirements. It additionally mandates the federal security breach reporting requirements for compromised ePHI.

Awareness Technologies has developed solutions aimed at removing the cost and complexity of addressing the compliance and security of healthcare institutions of all sizes. By delivering technologically elegant solutions in a SaaS form factor, Awareness Technologies has positioned itself as an ally in the quest to secure companies’ sensitive data across the entire organization – both on and off the network – as well as meeting the requirements of regulatory compliance. ATI solutions are trusted by over 10,000 companies world wide to provide an unparalleled level of visibility and control over sensitive data. For more information on the specific solutions that ATI offers, Click Here.