HIPAA: A Federal
law protecting medical information
Welcome
to the ITS HIPAA Policy Web site. This site is intended to
explain policies and procedures related to the Health Insurance
Portability and Accountability Act (HIPAA), and in particular,
HIPAA's Privacy Rule.
This
site is intended to help departments charged with the responsibility
of keeping patient data private and secure. Departments with
their own computing staff can handle their own security measures,
or they can have ITS implement security measures for them.
The articles
at left provide information on the steps ITS recommends for
anyone who has access to Protected Health Information (PHI).
ITS can help you make sure your computers are safe from unauthorized
access to PHI, at both the network and desktop levels. The
"Contact Information" page puts you in touch with
administrative and technical contacts who can help identify
and meet your information security needs.
Additional articles
on HIPAA
Here
are a couple of sources of information on HIPAA, the Privacy
Rule, and its implications for university security:
The
University of Florida's Privacy Office
The
Department of Health and Human Services HIPAA page
ITS Info
articles on security
These
articles, from recent issues of the ITS Info newsletter,
deal with pertinent security issues.
Network
ports and blocking thereof
FERPA
and protected student information
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