Portals and databases help healthcare organizations seamlessly access patient data and streamline operations. Regulations including HIPAA (Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act) hinder these benefits with complex controls that cause problems in both understanding and implementation. Excessive controls can limit efficiency while noncompliance risks loss and penalties. Coalfire incorporates a proven methodology founded on the HIPAA Security Rule and incorporated by our certified IT auditing experts. A thorough understanding of your existing controls allows us to integrate compliance solutions that don’t subtract benefits.

Many regulations on hospital data programs exist to protect patient and physician data from illegal access. Ensuring your security program is not only compliant, but sufficient and balanced to operational realities, requires an experienced partner. Our team provides detailed compliance assessments and program development plans to drive complete data protection. The result is an IT security system devoid of compliance gaps and security clogs.

Complex system networks transferring extensive health information create unique challenges for compliance with healthcare regulations, including HIPAA. Coalfire helps you achieve compliance without forfeiting effectiveness. We ensure a compliance framework that is minimally-invasive and cost-effective through program assessments, remediation planning, and plan documentation. By identifying compliance gaps, Coalfire develops a justified, cost-effective gap closure program.

Insurance companies manage a massive magnitude of personal information that is subject to security regulations. Coalfire is expert at helping companies create productive and over-arching IT controls programs that meet existing and emerging regulatory requirements. Our security assessment services have been validated by insurance and re-insurance organizations large and small throughout the U.S. and abroad. We provide tailored guidance to help you efficiently accelerate your compliance and security program development.

In utilizing and processing patient data, researchers must maintain patient confidentiality and prevent data intrusion in accordance with healthcare regulations including HIPAA (Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act). Coalfire’s HIPAA Assessment methodology incorporates best practices (NIST 800-30, ISO 17799) identified in the preamble to the HIPAA Final Security Rule to help you implement a legal, yet balanced, security program. We have executed our security assessment and HIPAA compliance methodology to organizations of all sizes nationwide.

Because of the "zero-profit" rule, many non-profits take minimal steps to comply with healthcare regulations, including HIPAA. Relying on IT managers and canned policy templates are not acceptable alternatives. Coalfire can accelerate compliance with HIPAA Security Rule with a cost-effective compliance gap closure program. Our compliance assessment methodology combines document reviews, technical exams, web surveys, and onsite reviews in determining a compliance framework that works to improve your system, rather than bog it down with excessive controls.

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