On February 17, 2009, President Obama signed into law the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act of 2009. The law includes new rules that affect the healthcare industry and those entities that might handle, process or maintain personal health information. The new rules revolve around two primary areas:

The mandated adoption of new electric health record systems

The expansion of breach notification rules concerning personal health records

Meeting the requirements of HIPAA requires most businesses to set up strong process, methods and controls to assure auditors that security and integrity of Protected Health Information is assured. This whitepaper outlines solutions that support secure processes as dictated by HIPAA. Additionally, it details why continuous compliance is important and how change control assures only authorized change is introduced to your systems.