HIPAA Compliance:

If you don’t know HIPAA, then you don’t know US healthcare at all. Most of the changes, security measures, and system requirements in the Industry are correlated with HIPAA, directly or indirectly. HIPAA focuses on ensuring three important aspects of Protected Health Information (PHI):

Confidentiality – Patient’s PHI is highly secured and immune to cyber-attacks and should not be disclosed without patient’s authorization to any of the unauthorized entity. We do in-store and in-transit encryption of the data in our system’s databases.

Integrity – This is to ensure that the PHI remains in the intact form, without any alterations or modifications

Availability – This is to ensure that patients can have an easy availability and all time accessibility to their PHI, including medical records, lab results, DICOMs, and other related information

Understanding of HIPAA guideline and implementing them in our systems is what made us SUCCESSFUL in the Industry. HITE provides a thorough risk assessment and management plans by doing an exhaustive research of the risks, their impact, and likelihood. We do an in-depth analysis of systems and ensure all the desired safeguards – Administrative Safeguards, Physical Safeguards, and Technical Safeguards.

Administrative Safeguards:

Standard Description HIPAA Requirements
164.308(a)(1) Security Management Process
  • Implement Policies and procedures to address information security, including risks
  • Ensure that all members of the workforce have appropriate access to EPHI
  • Restrict unnecessary or inappropriate access to EPHI by business need-to-know and minimum necessary
  • Deploy security awareness and training program for all workforce members
  • Address, respond to and report security incidents
  • Respond to emergency or other occurrence that could damages systems with EPHI
164.308(a)(2) Assigned Security Responsibility
164.308(a)(3) Workforce Security
164.308(a)(4) Information Access Management
164.308(a)(5) Security Awareness Training
164.308(a)(2) Security Incident Procedures

Technical Safeguards:

Standard Description HIPAA Requirements
164.312(a) Access Control
  • Access Control
  • Privileged User Monitoring
  • Encryption
  • Log and Event Management
  • Penetration Testing
  • Intrusion Detection/Prevention
  • Firewall
  • Configuration Management
164.312(b) Audit Controls
164.312(c) Integrity
164.312(d) Person or Entity Authentication
164.312(e) Transmission Security

Physical Safeguards:

Standard Description HIPAA Requirements
164.310(a)(1) Facility Access Controls
  • Access Control
  • Identity Management
  • Physical Security
  • Contingency Operations
  • Facility Security Plan
  • Access Control and Validation Procedures
  • Accountability
  • Data Backup and Storage
164.310(a)(2) Facility Security Plan
164.310(b) Workstation use
164.310(c) Workstation Security
164.310(d) Device and Media Control