HIPAA and HITECH Compliance for Health Care

Managing Storage Systems and Unstructured Health Information for Regulatory Compliance

The Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act and the Health Information Technology for Economic and Clinical Health Act establish rules and regulations for the health care industry. Likewise delivers software solutions that help the health care industry comply with HIPAA, HITECH, and other regulations. The software secures, monitors, and audits protected heath information stored on file servers and NAS systems to guarantee the data's confidentiality, integrity, and availability.

• Comply with HIPAA, HITECH, and other health care regulations.
• Mitigate the risk of noncompliance, security breeches, and privacy violations.
• Protect the confidentiality, integrity, and availability of unstructured health care information.
• Reduce the costs of compliance, storage, information life cycle management, and security.

Regulatory Compliance Solutions for Health Care

Likewise Storage Services provides access control that authenticates users and authorizes access to unstructured data stored on file servers and NAS systems. Likewise Data Analytics and Governance includes a dashboard with identity-based monitoring and compliance reports.

For information about the Likewise solutions for protecting health care information, see the following resources:

• White paper: Securing Unstructured Data: Protecting Sensitive Files by Uniting Identity, Security, and Storage
• White paper: Auditing Unstructured Data: Identity-Aware Storage, File Activity Monitoring, and Compliance Reporting Across Platforms
• Storage Access Control: Securing Access to Files Servers Holding Protected Health Information
• File Activity Monitoring: Tracking Unstructured Data for Security and HIPAA Compliance
• Exception Monitoring and Reporting: Identity-Aware Exception Monitoring for Security and HIPAA Compliance

Related Resources

White Papers

• Auditing
  Unstructured Data
• Securing
  Unstructured Data
• Monitoring
  Unstructured Data

Fact Sheet

• HIPAA Compliance
  Fact Sheet

Features

• Compliance reports for HIPAA, PCI DSS, and other regulations
• Access reports for electronic protected health information
• File modification reports
• Templates for custom reports
• Historical reports for auditing and forensics
• Dashboard with custom views
• Alerts for policy violations
• User rights monitoring
• Exception monitoring
• File activity monitoring
• NoSQL database for high performance and advanced analytics
• Event aggregation from various sources, including NetApp and EMC NAS systems