Security and HIPAA Compliance: Meeting the Challenge of Securing Protected Health Information White Paper As the need to ensure the security of sensitive health information grows, so must security and compliance teams look to more integrated approaches to both reduce risk and enable streamlined and efficient user workflows. This white paper looks at the most important elements of securing sensitive health information and meeting HIPAA compliance requirements in a scalable and cost-effective way. The paper also provides an overview of the HITECH Act, which addresses the privacy and security concerns associated with the electronic transmission of health information, in part through several provisions that strengthen the civil and criminal enforcement of the HIPAA rules.Table of C

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