The Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act of 1996 (HIPAA) requires broad security and disaster recovery protection for “individually identifiable healthcare information.” Healthcare organizations and companies that serve patients are now required by the federal government to meet security and disaster recovery standards.
Any health care provider, health care clearinghouse or health plan that electronically transmits or maintains health information pertaining to an individual must comply with HIPAA regulations.
Data Security and Availability
Two key aspects of HIPAA compliance are patient data security and immediate data availability.
Compliance with security aspects require:
- All patient data must be encrypted for privacy.
- Access to the patient data must be limited using proper authorization procedures.
Compliance with data availability aspects require:
- Frequent or daily backup of data.
- Offsite storage of Backup data.
- Ability to recover the backup data quickly.
SmartPick for HIPAA Compliance
SmartPick offers the perfect solution to comply with these HIPAA regulations.
Patient Data Security:
- State-of-the-art data encryption before moving the data out of your computer.
- Secret Key, that is only known to you, to restore and decode the data.
- Data stored in a secure data center with 24x7 security monitoring.
- Physical access to the data center restricted to authorized personnel only.
- Storage systems protected with state-of-the-art firewalls for security.
Patient Data Availability:
- Access to the backup data is available 24 x 7 from your computer.
- SmartPick Storage Servers store your data in high-availability (RAID5) storage systems that offer over 99.9% data availability.
- Immediate recoverability of data (less than 30 seconds for one file) using the Backup Client program running on your computer.
Peace of Mind
Whether your need HIPAA compliance or not, it is always prudent to backup your critical business data. SmartPick offsite backup service ensures that your backup data is always secure and is available to you when you need it the most, while helping you comply with federal regulations for HIPAA compliance.
