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Dakota Backup knows how important it is to protect the privacy and security of health information. Our online backup and recovery solutions use HIPAA-compliant, over-the-wire encryption technology - backed up on two different data centers. This ensures that your health information is stored safely, securely and in compliance with HIPAA regulations. FIPS 140-2 Compliancy
Is Your Data Protection Software FIPS 140-2 Compliant? If You are in Healthcare, It Better Be HITECH has a number of purposely ambiguous deadlines designed for the Health and Human Services (HHS) department so it can add clarification at a later date. Arguably the first area of clarification for healthcare is in the area of data breach notification. HITECH mandates that when a data breach occurs that exposes over 500 patient records, prominent local media must be notified. Further, data breaches in this category must be posted to the HHS web site. HITECH provides for "safe harbor" from the costs of patient notification as well as the reputational risk if data is protected from unauthorized access using encryption. The approved encryption processes to claim safe harbor are those that comply with the requirements of the Federal Information Processing Standards (FIPS) 140-2. This cryptographic standard ensures that federal guidelines for the effectiveness of encryption, strength of the algorithm, and security of the decryption key. Without the FIPS 140-2 certification, it is unwise for a healthcare institution to invest in solutions that move ePHI across networks for backup and recovery, disaster recovery or data archiving. Dakota Backup powered by Asigra is the first major backup vendor to achieve FIPS 140-2 security validation for the protection of your electronic health records |
Electronic medical records, paperless prescriptions and regulations are making healthcare a data-heavy enterprise. For providers, health plan administrator and others who handle medical information, HIPAA - the Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act of 1996 - sets strict rules for storing health information and ensuring patient privacy.
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