HIPAA
The U.S. healthcare industry has recently come under the Health Insurance
Portability and Accountability Act (HIPAA) security guidelines, which
require that confidential healthcare information be encrypted during electronic
transmission and verified upon receipt. IT solutions that support
these guidelines must be in place no later than April 21, 2005 for most
organizations and by April 21, 2006 for small health plans.
Diplomat Transaction
Manager easily manages these tasks by using OpenPGP to securely encrypt
data and verify the integrity and the source of the data with digital
signatures.
The HIPAA privacy
rule also requires companies to exercise care in sharing patient information
with their business partners. Healthcare organizations must obtain “satisfactory
assurance” that a business partner will appropriately safeguard patient
information. The Office for Civil Rights, which enforces the HIPAA privacy
rule, recommends that companies "develop a system to track and account
for disclosures".
The audit trail
capability of Diplomat Transaction Manager Standard and Enterprise Editions
provides a clear, time-stamped record of all files transferred to each
business partners.
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