HIPAA compliance is essential, failure to comply can result in both financial penalties and criminal charges.
Here are 5 ways that will help you to make your HIPPA compliant. You can also visit HIPAA screen lock requirements for getting more information about it.
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Permit authorized access only
Make it sure that only those, have proper permissions may see or use PHI (Protected Health Information). Your program must include access management. Keep track of activities to spot unauthorized access attempts.
Based on the threats to the ePHI in your system detected, you could take into account any of the following:
Using a password for authentication
A number of different factors
Authentication with certificates
Authentication using biometric
The use of authentication tokens
Put an appropriate security measures
Software that complies with HIPAA regulations does not ensure compliance. Users are responsible for ensuring that the program is utilized in a HIPPA-compliant way.
The security controls and procedures you must follow to protect the integrity, security, and confidentiality of PHI are outlined in your Business Associate Agreement with the covered businesses.
Implement remediation plan
To deal with possible breaches and lessen the harm, you must establish a remediation strategy. An automatic kill procedure should be initiated by the remediation plan to assist in identifying the problem.
To get your operations back on track, it must put systems in place to address the underlying problem and adopt mitigation measures.
Delete outdated data
You must have policies in place to permanently delete ePHI. So, it cannot be recovered or accessed by the general public. Your software must have the capability to securely discard outdated data as necessary.
Before destroying the data, encrypt it to prevent its decryption.
Replace sensitive information with non-sensitive data
ensures that all data is deleted from all devices and in all forms (physical, electronic, and backup) by exposing the data to powerful magnetic fields.
Backup your data and have disaster recovery in place
Data backup and disaster recovery procedures are outlined in the HIPAA Security Rule. When, where, and how frequently to back up the PHI your program interacts with should all be covered by the policy.
Your data backup strategy must also address how to recover and keep ePHI in its original condition in the event of an incident (including a breach, theft, neglect, and other problems). A disaster recovery plan that outlines what must be done in the event of an occurrence is also required.
Here are some measures, you may do to remain compliant.
- Backup information as often as necessary: This task can be automated, or you may use privileged access to conduct it by hand.
- Create many encrypted backup copies: For further protection, use strong encryption protocols.
- Real-time auditing solution facilitation: Implement continuous testing of the restoration procedures, real-time monitoring of the backed-up data, tracking of changes to PHI, and auditing of event logs depending on user roles.
- Create a disaster management feature: Create a recovery procedure in case of any disaster or misshape.
