HIPAA Support Widens In Cloud Vendor Community

Forbes: Earlier this year, the Department of Health and Human Services issued their “Final Rule” to modify HIPAA – the 1996 legislation that’s the beating heart of healthcare security, privacy and data portability. The lack of data portability continues to plague the industry – but the security and privacy are getting more serious with each iteration. The fun reading (courtesy of the Federal Register) is online here. One fast fact from a quick search of the document finds no less than 1,358 occurrences of the phrase “Business Associate.”

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