HIPAA Security Compliance Matters in Healthcare IT
HIPAA Security Compliance Matters in Healthcare IT
7 Pages© 2019 Progress. All Rights Reserved. HIP AA Security Compliance Matters in Healthcare ITProgress 2 © 2019 Progress. All Rights Reserved. Congress created the Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act (HIPAA) in 1996, mandating establishment of federal standards to protect the integrity, confidentiality and availability of individually identifiable health information. As a result, a valuable commodity—personal health information, or PHI—today remains largely shielded from lawful commercial exploitation. In the years since HIPAA’s enactment and as more PHI has moved online—and then into the cloud—the safety of patients’ information has become an urgent concern. By 2017, 86 percent of office-based physicians had digitized their patient health records. To provide standards
