HIPAA Compliance

The Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act, better known as HIPAA, addresses many areas of the healthcare industry including data storage and recovery.  Sections §164.308 and §164.310 of the Administrative Simplification Regulation Text has many provisions about data backup and recovery.  The Backup Safe helps healthcare provider meet these standards by providing secure encrypted data backups.

Important HIPAA Data Security Rules

• (§164.308) Data backup plan (Required) Establish and implement procedures to create and maintain retrievable exact copies of electronic protected health information.
• (§164.308) Disaster recovery plan (Required) Establish (and implement as needed) procedures to restore any loss of data.
• (§164.308) Emergency mode operation plan (Required)
  Establish (and implement as needed) procedures to enable continuation of critical business processes for protection of the security of electronic protected
  health information while operating in emergency mode.
• (§164.308) Protection from malicious software Procedures for guarding against, detecting, and reporting malicious software.
• (§164.310) Emergency access procedure(Required) Establish (and implement as needed) procedures for obtaining necessary electronic protected health information during an emergency.
• (§164.310) Encryption and decryption Implement a mechanism to encrypt and decrypt electronic protected health information.

USA Data Services can help you meet all of these rules

• Our data centers are secured 24 hours a day with limited access to personnel and video camera surveillance. There are strict controls in place to secure the systems storing your information.
• 128-bit AES encryption on all data stored and transmitted keeps access to data restricted to the customer only. USA Data Services has no ability to decrypt the data since the customer creates the encryption key themselves.
• Damage to files due to viruses and software corruption can easily be fixed with a simple restore of the data before the damage occurred.

A copy of the HIPAA regulation document for Administrative Simplification can be found here at http://hhs.gov