What is HIPAA Compliance?
Understand Where Your Organization Stands
HIPAA compliance means protecting patients’ health information and meeting the privacy, security, and breach-notification requirements that apply to your organization. For electronic protected health information (ePHI), the HIPAA Security Rule requires covered entities and business associates to maintain appropriate administrative, physical, and technical safeguards.
Compliance is not a one-time exercise. As technology, vendors, threats, and business operations change, new risks can emerge. Healthcare organizations must continually evaluate vulnerabilities, address identified risks, maintain appropriate policies and procedures, and prepare to respond when a security incident occurs.
Sedara helps healthcare organizations and business associates understand their current security posture, identify compliance gaps, and prioritize improvements. Through security risk assessments, 24x7x365 managed security, virtual CISO guidance, penetration testing, attack surface managment, and incident response planning, we help organizations strengthen their safeguards, support HIPAA and HITECH compliance, and better protect patient information.
Healthcare organizations trying to maintain compliance often find the process difficult to keep up with new regulations, time consuming, and expensive. Staying HIPAA compliant is not only important for the patient’s privacy, but also for the long-term success of the healthcare organization. As recent HIPAA-Related Security breaches show, any company found to be non-compliant can be charged with millions of dollars of fines if any patient information is leaked. Sedara offers a solution to help avoid electronic data breaches and comply with HIPAA and HITECH regulations giving you peace of mind.
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