Keeping patients’ confidential records secure is of utmost importance to healthcare organizations and the vendors who work alongside them. Not only is the proper safeguarding of information a good practice, it’s the law. The Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act (HIPAA) seeks to protect the sensitive data of patients and to empower healthcare practitioners to keep that information safe through strong security and privacy policies. HIPAA does not have specific recommendations for how to best protect much of the electronic storage and transmission that takes place with medical data today. The HIPAA requirements do, however, inform practices on the conceptual… [Continue Reading]