Health Information Portability and Accountability Act (HIPAA)

The Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act (HIPAA) of 1996 created privacy requirements and standards for protecting the confidentiality and integrity of a person's health records and information. To ensure compliance with HIPAA's Security Rule and Privacy Rule, healthcare organizations must:

• Create policies, procedures, and technical measures that protect networks, computers, and other electronic devices from unauthorized access.
• Defend the privacy of all individually identifiable health information that is housed or transmitted electronically.
• Limit disclosures of protected health information to the minimum necessary for healthcare treatment and business operations.
• Implement stringent requirements for access to records by researchers and others.
• Institute business associate agreements with business partners that safeguard their use and disclosure of PHI.
• Update systems to ensure they provide adequate protection of patient data.

Protect Patient Data with Biscom SFT

Biscom Delivery Server protects the privacy of health information that is housed or transmitted electronically and limits disclosures of information to the minimum necessary by:

• Enforcing protection that ensures only authorized users can see the information.
• Restricting who can send confidential documents and files.
• Providing detailed logs and audit trails of content access, authorization and usage.
• Supporting regulatory compliance behaviors without changing the way users work.