HIPAA Compliance

The security standards in the Health Insurance Portability & Availability Act (HIPAA) were developed to protect an individual’s health record while permitting the appropriate access and use of the information.

Identity theft, stolen computer disks, malfunctioning computers, hackers, and other preventable losses of information — these are just a few of the hazards facing all businesses that receive, store, and transmit data in electronic form. Many health care providers too face these same hazards. Much of the electronic protected health information (EPHI) they hold is critical to their business and vital to the care of their patients. Providers face major problems if their patient’s sensitive information is stolen, misused, or unavailable.

Colorado Hi-Tech Solutions can provide large and small providers assistance in meeting the challenges of HIPAA security by assisting with:

• Risk assessments
• Creating policies and procedures
• Providing offsite backup storage
• Penetration testing
• Disaster Recovery
• Business Continuity
• Data encryption
• Firewalls and intrusion detection
• Yearly security reviews
• HIPAA security training