HIPAA is U.S. Public Law 104-191 - the Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act of 1996. Congress created the Act to improve health care enabled by the nation's health plans and providers. HIPAA mandates standards-based implementations of security controls by all health care organizations that create, store or transmit electronic protected health information. The HIPAA Security Rule governs protection of PHI. Organizations must certify their security programs via self-certification or by a private accreditation entity. Non-compliance can trigger various civil penalties, including fines and/or imprisonment.

AIC Secure HIPAA Compliance Solutions

AIC's Comprehensive Security Compliance and HIPAA Compliance Solutions provide the network infrastructure, physical security, and the technical controls to safeguard client's data within segregated environments. AIC offers a variety of deployment models including managed physical, cloud, and hybrid environments all hosted within AIC's secure, geographically diverse, HIPAA compliant, and SSAE16 certified facilities. Solutions can be completely customized in terms of solution architecture, hardware, number of servers/firewalls, and geographical location. For all deployment models, AIC solutions are supported by fulltime onsite engineers and physically secured 24x7x365 by audited security personnel, badge/photo ID access screening, biometric access screening, motion sensors and security breach alarms. AIC maintains strict access policies and the managed security team continuously monitors and responds to security incidents, protecting systems 24x7x365.

AIC leverages the Payment Card Industry Data Security Standard (PCI DSS) as a prescriptive security baseline for implementing controls for its hosted HIPAA solutions. This standard outlines a comprehensive framework of detailed security controls, technologies, and implementation standards for securing credit card data. As one of the first Level 1 PCI Certified Service Providers, AIC has years of PCI expertise in deploying and managing secure and compliant solutions. Building on this practical experience, AIC has augmented its compliance solutions with HIPAA specific policies, procedures, safeguards to protect client data and ePHI, in accordance with HIPAA guidelines.

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