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HIPAA compliance

Build brand trust among patients and clients with a HIPAA certification. Gain the perfect hand-holding experience your organization deserves with SharkStriker’s compliance management services for HIPAA compliance.   

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OVERVIEW

Understanding
HIPAA Compliance

Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act or HIPAA is a regulation that was passed in 1996 to protect health insurance beneficiaries from getting discriminated based on health conditions and to prevent companies from increasing premiums and deductibles.    It guides healthcare entities secure all sensitive healthcare data from unauthorized access and access by a party without the consent of patients. It recommends guidelines for information security and privacy of health information.  See how SharkStriker helps healthcare entities become HIPAA compliant.

APPLICABILITY

On whom does HIPAA apply?

HIPAA regulations apply to all individuals, organizations, and institutions digitally transmitting any form of health information, subject to the varied standards published by the Department of Health and Human Services (HHS). All entities that are either – healthcare providers, healthcare plans, or healthcare clearinghouses are required to follow the guidelines issued by HIPAA.   

On whom does the HIPAA Apply
BENEFITS

Benefits of being HIPAA compliant

  • Establishes a baseline cybersecurity posture
  • Mitigates information security risk
  • Prepares organizations for cybersecurity incidents
  • Improves reputation and builds trust among healthcare clients
  • Provides a competitive edge
  • Nurtures a culture of trust
  • Enhances productivity through systematic documentation and process
  • Prepares entities for cyber incidents
REQUIREMENTS

HIPAA Administrative Physical and Technical Safeguards

Conduct risk assessments and ensure mechanisms to: 

  • Restrict unauthorized access to PHI  
  • Audit how and when PHI is accessed and by whom 
  • Monitor whether PHI is modified or destroyed unlawfully 
  • Authentication of IDs
  • Ensure security of PHI from unauthorized disclosure during its communication
APPROACH

Here is how we help organizations become HIPAA compliant

We prepare a detailed scope of compliance through a thorough assessment of the IT infrastructure and an in-depth discussion with our client regarding their requirements. Based on the scope we conduct a comprehensive risk assessment of the status quo infrastructure, identifying the underlying risks and vulnerabilities and categorizing them as per their severity. Based on the assessment, identification, and categorization of risks and vulnerabilities, we prepared a detailed report comprising the recommendations to treat and remediate them.

Once we assess the risks and vulnerabilities in the cybersecurity posture, we conduct a compliance gap assessment across different levels. It helps us determine which areas are non-compliant areas and plan measures to treat them.

We prepare a detailed plan comprising all the policies, procedures, rules, measures, and controls that are to be implemented to treat the risks across different levels of the IT infrastructure.

It is the most vital step to compliance management where we implement the right set of expertise, resources, people, processes, technology, and all the measures as per the risk treatment plan.

To make sure that everything is executed as per the risk treatment plan without leaving out any gaps, we conduct a post-implementation audit. If any gaps are found in the audit, we fill those gaps with the appropriate measures.

Since human error is one of the biggest factors that contribute to increased cyber risks and the leading cause of non-compliance due to data breaches and other attacks, we take steps to assess and fill awareness gaps across organizations.

BEST PRACTICES

Some HIPAA best practices that we help implement

  • Implementing an effective authentication with access controls
  • Reduce data sharing to only specific tasks
  • Run vulnerability assessments regularly
  • Periodically assess third-party handling of PHI
  • Develop systematic procedures to encrypt and secure apps with a remote wipe feature for mobile security of devices accessing PHI
  • Encrypt all PHI from unauthorized access
  • Develop and implement a continuous security improvement program to assess HIPAA efforts based on lessons learnt
  • Train and educate staff on their role towards HIPAA compliance, threats, and best practices to handle PHI

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