Security monitoring facilitates HIPAA security compliance
Security of Protected Health Information (PHI) has many aspects. Catbird's Security Monitoring is the best solution for health care providers to insure that their internal systems and Internet connected systems remain “locked down” and are free from vulnerabilities, hijacking, identity theft, defacement or service interruptions.
In 2003, all health care entities that process health-related data were required to comply with the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services' (HHS) Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act of 1996 (HIPAA). The ultimate objective of HIPAA is to increase the efficiency and effectiveness of health information systems through improvements in electronic health care transactions as well as to maintain the security and privacy of individually identifiable health information.
Industry analysts estimate the process of updating health information systems to be about three to four times more difficult than Y2K.
The Privacy and Confidentiality Standards apply across the industry, and many organizations are in the midst of sweeping changes to comply.
Privacy of computer systems and Internet connections requires constant knowledge of the status of those systems - whether or not firewalls are locked down, patches are up to date, linked partners are living up to their contractual commitments, secure online communications are always encrypted. Answers to these concerns are supplied through Catbird's Security Monitoring.
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