The Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act (HIPAA) of 1996 established privacy requirements and security standards for protecting the confidentiality and integrity of individually identifiable health information.  Virtually every healthcare organization has been affected including health care providers, health plans, public health authorities, and healthcare clearinghouses.  

HIPAA Compliance

To ensure compliance with HIPAA's Security Rule and Privacy Rule, healthcare organizations must:

• Establish policies, procedures and techincal measures that protect networks, computers and other electronic devices 
• Protect the privacy of all individually identifiable health information that is housed or transmitted electronically
• Restrict disclosures of protected health information to the minimum needed for healthcare treatment and business operations
• Establish new requirements for access to records by researchers and others
• Establish business associate agreements with business partners that safeguard their use and disclosure of PHI
• Update systems to ensure they provide adequate protection of patient data

Liquid Machines Document Control and Email Control allow healthcare organizations to protect personal healthcare data by:

• Protecting data wherever it is used or sent, from reports extracted from back-office human resource systems to email messages through enterprise-defined policies
• Automatically identifying email that contain PHI
• Enforcing protection that ensures only authorized users can see the information
• Enabling organizations to define when content control and protection can be removed and by whom
• Providing detailed logs and audit trails of content access and usage in a format that can be easily stored, viewed and imported into other enterprise systems
• Supporting compliance activities without changing the way users work