HIPAA compliant hosting is a specialized service designed to meet the stringent requirements of the Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act. This includes managing, maintaining, and securing healthcare data with high attention to compliance, data privacy, and security.
As there are no governing bodies to certify the compliance of hosting solutions, healthcare entities are responsible for ensuring providers meet these standards. Therefore, enterprises in the healthcare sector must exercise due diligence in assessing hosting providers' capabilities to deliver secure and compliant services.
Healthcare organizations should opt for hosting that can guarantee uptime, secure backups, and robust security measures to secure your electronic protected health information (ePHI).
Ensuring that all data, especially ePHI, is encrypted both in transit and at rest. This prevents unauthorized access and ensures data integrity.
Regular, reliable data backups, and a comprehensive disaster recovery plan to ensure data is never lost and can be restored in the event of an emergency.
Guard all sensitive PHI information against external threats, unauthorized access and accidental misuse by your staff.
Comprehensive support, including server hardening, application & kernel updates, backup solutions, multi-tenant isolation, and system monitoring to ensure continuous operational integrity.
Take advantage of our managed backup solutions available for our Managed HIPAA Compliant Hosting Servers. These solutions maintain data encryption while enabling you to restore files or an entire server image at any time. These backups are taken every day with no user intervention required.
In addition to your files and operating system, your database backups are also taken once a day and stored within your server’s encrypted storage.
The data retention period is also completely flexible – you can retain any number of days you need. All of this is handled by our Linux experts, who can help you restore any files or databases at any point in time. We’re here to prevent data loss in almost any circumstance.
It is vital to understand that HIPAA Compliance is a shared responsibility between the hosting provider and the customer. As each of our servers gives you full root access to install and manage your data however you see fit, you can inadvertently create security loopholes. As such, RoseHosting remains responsible for the security and protection of the infrastructure and services on our servers. This includes our data centers, hardware, software, and networking. As part of our fully managed support, we configure your server for optimal security and provide advice and support whenever needed.
With that in mind, you ultimately decide what goes on your server and can install the software yourself or have our admins do it. Should you or one of your employees choose to install on, configure, or edit your server in any way, you may leave it open to security loopholes. Leaving a computer with access to sensitive information unlocked or not training new staff can lead to security breaches. This puts the responsibility for security within the server on the healthcare organization and the responsibility for security of the server on RoseHosting.
HIPAA Compliant Hosting is a collaboration between healthcare organizations and their hosting providers built to satisfy the Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act of 1996. HIPAA compliant hosting ensures that all websites, applications, or data storage that use electronic protected health information (ePHI) adhere to the strict HIPAA security standards for physical and electronic safeguard requirements.
The key requirements for HIPAA compliance include ensuring the privacy of patients' protected health information (PHI), implementing physical, technical, and administrative security measures, conducting investigations in the event of a breach, notifying the necessary parties and patients if a breach occurs, and ensuring that business associates are also compliant with HIPAA regulations.
Anyone handling medical information or similar highly confidential data needs HIPAA compliant hosting for added security. Medical providers are required by law to use HIPAA compliant hosting.
HIPAA requires covered entities and their business associates to sign a Business Associate Agreement (BAA). This formalizes the responsibilities for privacy and security of health information and ensures compliance with HIPAA rules. As such we provide all of our HIPAA compliant hosting servers with a free BAA.
Additional costs will depend from provider to provider based on what their standard hosting provides. In the case of RoseHosting, we've always been HIPAA compliant regarding security and the high-grade quality of our security, safety, backups, and equipment. As such, you incur no additional costs, and HIPAA compliance has been and is our routine daily standard of service for the past two decades.
