HIPAA Compliant File Sharing & Document Management
What is the Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act (HIPAA)?
The Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act (HIPAA) is a federal law requiring health care organizations to develop, implement, and maintain administrative, technical, and physical safeguards to protect the security, integrity, and confidentiality of patient information.
Who has to comply with HIPAA?
Under HIPAA, covered entities include health plans, health care clearinghouses, and health care providers regardless of size who electronically store or transmit any health information in connection with any transactions for which HHS (Department of Health and Human Services) has adopted a standard.2
What if you fail to comply with HIPAA regulations?
Under HIPAA, penalties for non-compliance can include fines of up to $50,000 per violation, with fines for officers and directors of up to $250,000 per violation. The provisions include criminal penalties of up to 10 years in prison.1
- HIPAA Violations and Enforcement
- To Whom Does the Privacy Rule Apply and Whom Will It Affect?
HIPAA Compliant File Sharing & Document Management
What is the Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act (HIPAA)?
The Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act (HIPAA) is a federal law requiring health care organizations to develop, implement, and maintain administrative, technical, and physical safeguards to protect the security, integrity, and confidentiality of patient information.
Who has to comply with HIPAA?
Under HIPAA, covered entities include health plans, health care clearinghouses, and health care providers regardless of size who electronically store or transmit any health information in connection with any transactions for which HHS (Department of Health and Human Services) has adopted a standard.2
What if you fail to comply with HIPAA regulations?
Under HIPAA, penalties for non-compliance can include fines of up to $50,000 per violation, with fines for officers and directors of up to $250,000 per violation. The provisions include criminal penalties of up to 10 years in prison.1
- HIPAA Violations and Enforcement
- To Whom Does the Privacy Rule Apply and Whom Will It Affect?
How does SmartVault support your HIPAA compliance efforts?
SmartVault provides privacy and security protections that enable our healthcare customers to use our products in compliance with HIPAA.
These include:
- security measures for protecting PHI
- assessments for reasonable remediation or mitigating controls of addressable HIPAA Security Rules
- an annual HIPAA Security Attestation, Gap Assessment, and Security Risk Analysis
- the regular review and retention of HIPAA policies and procedures
- security awareness content regarding the protection of ePHI, and
- the designation and role definition of a HIPAA Security and Privacy Officers
Keep in mind that HIPAA compliance is a healthcare organization obligation, not a prescriptive specification. So when we say that SmartVault supports a HIPAA-compliant workflow, what we mean is that our service gives you the tools that health care organizations and service providers need in order to work in a HIPAA-compliant fashion.