"Anything concerning the privacy of medical data in the USA is governed by the Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act (HIPAA) passed in 1996 ...]
If you handle in any way shape or form information about a person’s health you fall under HIPPA compliance regulations. With so many dissimilar IT environments how does anyone go about sharing information that is not encrypted?
Understanding "HIPAA on Phones, Faxes and E-mail" may help alleviate any fears that you are not in compliance.
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"Healthcare organizations that are performing risk assessments as a way to craft patient-privacy policies might want to consider a new potential attack vector: federal regulators ..."
Not only has HIPAA developed claws but has become aggressive; "Warning: HIPAA Has Teeth and Will Bite Over Healthcare Privacy Blunders. The US Health and Human Services department has decided to take off the gloves; if you are in the healthcare business there is a new sheriff in town.
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Singapore has opted for an extensive implementation of Oracle solutions in the establishment of its National Electronic Health Record (NEHR) system. NEHR has deployed
Oracle Healthcare Transaction Base, Oracle Database 11g, multiple Oracle Database Options, Oracle VM, and several components of Oracle Fusion Middleware, such as Oracle Identity Management 11g, Oracle SOA Suite 11g and Oracle WebLogic Suite 11g. NEHR will enable health care providers to access a single patient record for medical information, including patient demographics, diagnosis, medications, tests, procedures and discharge summaries, for exchange among clinicians. This comprehensive deployment of a platform for electronic health records was completed in 10 months with the aid of Oracle Consulting.
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Security concerns comprise an important aspect of the Administrative Simplification Compliance Act, itself part of the Health Information Portability and Accountability Act (HIPAA). The Oracle white paper "Leveraging Oracle Enterprise Single Sign-On Suite Plus to Achieve HIPAA Compliance" outlines how users can implement Oracle Enterprise Single Sign-On Suite Plus to achieve compliance with the HIPAA Security Rule in particular and HIPAA security requirements in general. The white paper explains the authentication and access controls in Oracle Enterprise Single Sign-On that ensure compliance with HIPAA requirements. Appendices illustrate in detail both the standards and specifications of HIPAA's Security Rule and point out which of these in particular are addressed by the subject solution.
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Given the ease with which most hastily derived passwords can be cracked and the even greater ease with which users themselves can forget any one (or more) of the multiple password their access to resources require, the arrival on the scene of enterprise single sign-on (ESSO) is fortuitous. The white paper contends that, by implementing enterprise single sign-on (ESSO), network administrators can set, assign, securely store, and change passwords from a single point of control with the following benefits to the enterprise:
Simplified administration
Reduced support costs
Improved enterprise security
Greater user productivity
Ability to achieve compliance with HIPAA, SOX, and other regulations
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