The HIPAA Final Security Rule is divided into three broad categories of safeguards; administrative, physical, and technical and contains 42 security specifications. This reference guide lists the requirements of the Final Security Rule in point format with the action that needs to be taken in order to achieve compliance for Healthcare Operations by April 21, 2005, the final compliance date. More to the point it provides explanations for each specification in plain English.
Practitioners who truly pay attention to the
implied as well as explicit regulatory
requirements will quickly realize that only with
appropriate technology to complement their
efforts will they be able to manage successfully a
compliant security program. The primary
requirement for any technology solution is that it
supports compliance and governance with an
ability to continuously adapt, enforce, and
maintain an integrated security posture for the
business. A review of available technologies
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Only Sygate can give the business the ability to
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continuously enforce the company’s policies,
irrespective of the means of connection to the
company's network. The ability to move policy
and procedure from written documents to
network-enforced mechanisms is a powerful
enabler for enterprises, which can be sure, at any
time, of their security postures.
This enforcement capability works unde
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