HIPAA - Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act.
HIPAA is a law for safeguarding the privacy of the health care information extracted from a patient.
Saving, managing and distributing of a patient information may become a threat for their life in any form if it is handled unsafely as data stealing, fraudulent activities and identity theft is a frequent happening we are seeing in a society.
It governs the patient’s self or health information handling in the platform of medical practitioners or a health care entity by creating a fence through the following listed technology evolution.
Anti-malware software incorporated under the guidance of HIPAA compliance is helping to safeguard our medical reports from risks of cybersecurity threats. Mainly, we use this antimalware protection software for removing the phishing attacks.
Our secure systems are logging the records ultimately in a specialized software where the valuable client’s medical record has been stored and protected. It will be destroyed after the relevant process is ended.
A business associate agreement, is a written arrangement that specifies each party’s responsibilities for Protected Health Information (PHI) based on HIPAA Compliant. We are providing the satisfactory assurances for proper safeguards in writing.
Backing up of our medical records is an important activity preventing from unexpected loss of data. Our process of backup is implemented with the encryption mechanism for making the conversion of sensible data in to the cipher text.
In terms of HIPAA Compliance, for securing the data, it is required of hiding our IP Address and Location. It mainly protecting online sensible data for preventing the attacks from cybercriminals. It make sures the medical data transmissions can’t be monitored by any advertisers.
If our medical data is facing the security threat through network packet, our intrusion prevention system is denying the network traffic based on the profile of data. It majorly work with us for sending an alert to our system administrator while detecting malicious network packets.
Our Cisco firewall systems helping the medical data handled safely by means of stops virus attacks, prevents hacking and promotes privacy. Especially, it is providing the reliable protection for the sensitive medical data stored in our cloud space.
Our vulnerability scanning technology proactively network, application and security vulnerabilities while we are handling the medical data in a multiple software platform. By means of this, our medical records meeting the proper determination towards hardening the security defence.
We are mostly using the linux server because of the powerful security, reliability and consistency feature. It helps to highly restrict the external sources which may possibly destabilize the medical data server.