Hipaa Internet
hipaa internet
Does HIPAA state you cannot use wireless internet?
Do you have to be hardwired to the internet according to HIPAA?
There is no requirement in the HITECH act that says you can not use wireless. It does say you must take every reasonable precaution to safeguard PHI. I would ask you auditor on your next pre-audit.
In order to fulfill Hipaa HITECH requirements, we have very compartmentalized systems. Each system has one primary function. Every system runs a system level firewall that closes every network port except the ones required to fulfill that function. All traffic is segregated, by vlans, The management vlan has only management traffic, the backup vlan only has backup traffic, the db vlan only has db traffic, the web vlan only has web traffic, storage, middleware, etc …
Next we protect all data at rest and all data in transit. The databases live on encrypted filesystems, The key only exists on the server that mounts that filesystem. Data in transit even internally is encrypted with IPSEC. externally with ssl. Data is not stored with PII and PHI in the same table. if a table is compromised, and a copy gets out; the attacker will not have enough information to identify the patient, or if they get the patient table they wont get any health data, or PII. The builds complexity into the database layer. User login credentials are not stored with patient data, if the login process is compromised they get a uid and a hash which can not be used to authenticate and gain access to the database.
shoot… tmi..
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