Sentry with Managed Security

Satisfies the technical safeguards required within federal laws and credit card industry rules.

Health Insurance Portability & Accountability Act (HIPAA)
The Health Insurance Portability & Accountability Act of 1996 (HIPAA) promises to have a sweeping impact on the healthcare system. The Act imposes broad and complex new patient information privacy & security requirements on virtually every segment of healthcare. This requirement directly impacts every healthcare provider. Failure to satisfy these requirements can result in civil and criminal penalties for you as well as your staff. The civil penalties can range from $50,000 to $250,000 per violation.

Today however, the greatest risk to a practice, is civil litigation. The HIPAA requirements generally equate to a Standard of Care. Some may consider this a platform for malpractice. However, HIPAA Security & Privacy malpractice is not usually covered by existing malpractice insurers. The exposure is tremendous, for the first time in American law, public standards for security & privacy have become codified. Trial lawyers can now point to explicit requirements to support their case. History is there as well, during the 1980's the most frequent and expensive litigations were based upon "Failure to Provide Adequate Security". Needless to say, this was fertile ground even without security standards for litigators to reference. With HIPAA there are now a thousand trip wires to step over!

All of these regulations require security safeguards for compliance.