Protect PHI and Ensure Patient Privacy With HIPAA Compliance
Healthcare providers and their partners generate, process, share, and store massive amounts of patient data like lab results, prescription records, diagnoses, and treatment plans. HIPAA helps to ensure that sensitive PHI is handled with care and kept secure to protect patient privacy.
The Kiteworks Private Content Network provides covered entities and their business associates with automated end-to-end encryption, granular access controls, a hardened virtual appliance, and comprehensive audit logs to ensure PHI is protected both in transit and at rest.
Granular Access Controls and Comprehensive Auditing for HIPAA Privacy Compliance
Kiteworks offers granular access controls and role-based permissions for precise user management, ensuring HIPAA Privacy Rule compliance. Enhanced security is achieved through specific access rights based on job functions. Comprehensive auditing and reporting provide valuable audit logs, meeting HIPAA requirements and identifying potential risks. Kiteworks ensures reliable data backup and recovery using redundant, geographically distributed centers, maintaining patient information’s availability and integrity. With Kiteworks, experience enhanced privacy, compliance, and effective safeguarding of patient information in a secure, collaborative environment.
Robust Safeguards for Secure Patient Data Protection
Kiteworks delivers robust HIPAA Security Rule safeguards, including centralized user access, permission management, and activity monitoring tools. The platform supports customized security policies and procedures, empowering healthcare organizations to establish tailored security programs. Secure content access to patient data from any device minimizes unauthorized access and physical device theft risks. Kiteworks ensures data security through encryption for data in transit and at rest, utilizing SSL/TLS and AES-256 protocols, which effectively helps organizations meet technical safeguards requirements and protect patient data.
Rapid Incident Detection and Response
Enforce advanced security features and monitoring tools to help healthcare organizations detect and respond rapidly to potential security incidents. The platform offers real-time notifications and alerts and comprehensive auditing and reporting capabilities, enabling organizations to identify and investigate potential breaches promptly. It includes a secure mobile container that can be wiped remotely in the event of a lost or stolen device. This helps ensure compliance with the HIPAA Breach Notification Rule and minimize the impact of unauthorized access or disclosure of patient information (PII/PHI).
Streamlined Collaboration With Business Associates
Facilitate secure collaboration, control, and file sharing between healthcare organizations and their business associates. By providing a Private Content Network for exchanging sensitive information, Kiteworks supports compliance with the HIPAA Omnibus Rule. This ensures that patient information remains protected and that covered entities and business associates meet compliance obligations.
Enhanced Privacy Controls for Genetic Information
Implement content-defined zero-trust policies and enhanced privacy controls by the Final Rule for GINA to protect genetic information. The platform ensures limited access to sensitive genetic information, preventing unauthorized use or disclosure. Kiteworks enables healthcare organizations to securely manage file transfer and protect genetic information by offering granular access controls and secure communication channels while complying with GINA and the HIPAA Privacy Rule.