HIPAA

The Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act (HIPAA) became law in August 1996. It's primary purpose is to enable employees and their families to transfer health care benefits from one employer to another and to continue coverage after a layoff.

HIPAA also included a number of data management requirements to ensure privacy while still enabling digitization and it’s benefits.

Many OTC customers already rely on our internet and IT infrastructures, data centers and virtual private networks to comply with HIPAA.

To learn more about OTC’s infrastructure call us at 734-213-2020, or email sales@onlinetech.net

• What is HIPAA

  • HIPAA stands for the "Health Information Portability and Accountability Act"

    
    

  • Enacted in 1996 to enable more portable and efficient health coverage

    
    

  • In general terms, HIPAA calls for:

    • Standardization of electronic patient health, administrative and financial data

      
      

    • Unique health identifiers for individuals, employers, health plans and health care providers

      
      

    • Security standards protecting the confidentiality and integrity of "individually identifiable health information," past, present or future

      
      

• Who’s affected?

  • Every doctor office, hospital and even insurance company has compliance challenges

    
    

  • Data backup, data privacy generally need special attention

    
    

• How can OTC Help?

  • OTC provides IT infrastructure in secure data centers

    
    

  • This information can be shared between data centers over OTC’s private network for off-site tapeless backup.

    
    

  • OTC’s data centers and managed services offer a much more secure and reliable environment for sensitive medical data than most doctors offices, insurance offices and even many hospital data centers