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HIPAA was written in the United States under the Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act of 1996. It sets certain legal standards to safeguard Protected Health Information (PHI)—from an individual’s medication and diagnosis history to laboratory test results and insurance information. At Qualysec, we advise organizations through the complexity of global cybersecurity and compliance laws applicable to them, including HIPAA, GDPR, SOC 2, ISO 27001, etc.
Even though HIPAA is an American regulation, its applicability and influence are expanding into and beyond the United Kingdom, and for UK organizations with U.S. health consumers or private health information, the relevance of this legislation extends across the water – not that it is practical to ignore it. We can assist organizations with their due diligence to exhibit security readiness, including automation-based audits, gap analysis, and policy writing etc.
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