Engagent and HIPAA Compliance

The Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act (HIPAA) provisions for health information privacy and patient confidentiality standards that will affect all health service organizations. 

Section 164.316 (b) (2) (i) of HIPAA specifically requires that all documentation related to security policies be retained for 6 years.

Engagent offers a software suite to help you satisfy HIPAA compliance requirements for health service IT Departments running Windows. The Engagent HIPAA Compliance Suite addresses the majority of internal enterprise preparations for satisfying HIPAA requirements. This software suite addresses two major components of HIPAA compliance by focusing on Technical Security Processes and IT Administrative Procedures. These two HIPAA categories are addressed through five software modules:

• Protect against internal security threats by automating event log management.
• Protect against impersonation and unauthorized access by limiting logon activity.
• Provide appropriate audit trails for security events and sub-administrator activities
• Report critical file access.
• Maintain up-to-date domain information by executing remote inventories of workstations and servers.

HIPAA Compliance and Your IT Department

Satisfying HIPAA compliance will be the most important challenge facing your health service IT department this year. As you may already know, there are many aspects to preparing your organization to comply with HIPAA requirements and many of these requirements will be addressed directly by your IT department. To some degree, you will need to change and improve many aspects of document protection, account administration, security monitoring, and other issues for ensuring patient privacy.

Satisfying HIPAA Compliance

Even though the task of satisfying HIPAA compliance is daunting, your IT department can only benefit by since HIPAA really asks you to implement ‘best practices’ processes and strategies. As a result of satisfying HIPAA compliance, your IT Department will streamline processes and create consistent IT practices resulting in operation cost reduction.

Partial HIPAA Compliance Deadlines

Health services facilities not already meeting the partial HIPAA compliance deadline of April 14, 2003 may already be liable for fines of up to $50,000. There are multiple aspects to compliance that need to be considered. Engagent's HIPAA White Paper will help you understand what compliance issues our software suite addresses.

Engagent and HIPAA Compliance

Each module of Engagent's HIPAA Compliance Suite is certified to work for Windows NT 4 and Windows 2000. With the expert support from Engagent including configuration assistance you can implement any of these solutions to satisfy your IT Department's HIPAA requirements well before any scheduled deadline.