Reach HIPAA compliance
with Data Vault's Online
Backup Service
HIPAA states that any health care
provider, clearinghouse, or health care plan that electronically
maintains or transmits health information pertaining to an
individual MUST have contingency plans that include backup,
recovery, and an emergency mode plan.
Data Vault
Corp offers your organization or office HIPAA
compliant systems for automated backup and Disaster Recovery
services. Why use Data Vault
Corp as you Remote Backup and Data Recovery
Solution?
Six critical questions to ask
your potential provider:
Can you guarantee that my data
will be available in the event of total hardware failure?
Can you guarantee the integrity
of my data in the event of a catastrophic event or human error?
Can you absolutely guarantee the
confidentiality of my data?
Can you guarantee my data is
protected against intrusion?
If I grow from 2 facilities to
20, can you guarantee that my system is scalable?
Can you guarantee that my data
is stored in a single database?
Background on HIPAA
In 1996, Congress enacted the Health
Insurance Portability and Accountability Act (HIPAA). The
legislative goals of HIPAA were to mandate the industry to
implement procedures to reduce the administrative costs of
healthcare, develop standard transactions for consistency in the
industry, promote security and confidentiality of patient
records and to provide incentive for the healthcare industry to
use electronic communications to make patient records available
no matter where the patient was being treated - a process that
takes days with manual records - and particularly useful in
emergencies. All health care providers, insurance providers,
health care clearinghouses or health plans that electronically
maintains or transmits health information pertaining to an
individual must comply with HIPAA regulations. Failure to comply
with the Act's requirements originally had some onerous
penalties for disclosure of any element of medical information
to sources without need, such as a clerk inadvertently faxing
some record to the wrong fax number, would have had both
financial and incarceration involved. These penalties have been
reduced by interpretation by the Secretary of HHS, who was
chartered by the Act to develop the compliance guidelines. The
Act, as passed by Congress, set 1998 as the start date for
compliance, but the pace with which the Federal Bureaucracy
operates has delayed the start date to 2005. All in the
healthcare industry are now preparing to comply with the Act.
Remote data backup is the ideal
subscription service to enable a covered entities to deliver
mandated services for their clients. A simplified version of the
Act's compliance requirements are available at
http://aspe.hhs.gov/admnsimp/
Contact Data Vault Corp
for more information on how we can help you comply with the
HIPAA contingency plan requirements.
