HIPAA-Compliant Data Backup
HIPAA
(Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act of 1996) was enacted to
improve the access and portability of patient health records while maintaining
strict privacy and security of electronically transmitted private
information.
Health agencies who fail
to comply with HIPAA's regulations now face strict fines and penalties.
Remote Data
Backups helps you comply with
HIPAA's Data Protection - Data Privacy and
Data Security Rules.
Compliance with HIPAA's Privacy Rule
Mandatory
Compliance Date: April 14, 2003
How Remote Data Backups helps you
comply:
- Secure Transmission - RDB uses bank-level
128-bit AES encryption to
transmit and store your data using a personalized encryption key that you choose, and (unlike our
competitors) only you have access to.
- Physical Access -
Using Remote Data Backups ensures
secure, offsite data storage. Our data centers feature the tightest
physical and technical safeguards to prevent unauthorized access to our
mirrored data center. Both are hardened facilities with limited administrative
access, finger scanners for physical access and motion detectors and camera
tracking.
- Logical Access - Logical access to backed up data is
controlled with a secure user interface.
- Data Retention - Healthcare providers must retain
health records for a minimum of six years. For an annual fee, Remote Data
Backups can securely archive and maintain your critical data on CDs, or we can
outline a plan for you to do it on your own.
Compliance with HIPAA's Security
Rule
Mandatory Compliance
Date: April 21, 2005.
How Remote Data Backups helps you comply:
- HIPAA Security Rules require providers to have a
written contingency plan for responding to system emergencies. A data
backup plan is required as part of the contingency plan, which Remote Data
Backups can provide you at no additional charge. The plan will ensure your data
is securely and reliably backed up on a routine basis and that your backed up
data will be readily available in the event you have a system failure or other
form of data loss.
- Using RDB helps reduce your Security "Media Control"
risks by eliminating insecure methods of data handling that result from
traditional disk or tape
backup techniques.
- Files are securely transmitted to RDB's data centers
using encryption and Secure Socket
Layer (SSL) authentication, access controls, auditing mechanisms, and event
reporting as required by
HIPAA's Security Policy.
Please note: Under
the current rules, no software is truly "HIPAA compliant," as there are no
regulations that specifically address backup and privacy software.
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