CASBs To Meet The Heightened PHI Compliance Need

Enterprises dealing with protected health information need to meet the PHI Compliance standards and CASB Solutions are the best bet to secure the confidential data.

PHI Compliance

Personal Health Information or PHI is the individually-identifiable information that mostly contains the demographic details, information regarding medical insurance, patient’s medical histories, tests, lab results and other medical data that are collected by healthcare professionals from individuals to determine the appropriate care that is to be taken. This health information that is transmitted or maintained in the electronic media or any other forms of paper and oral communication has to be protected as per the United States Department of Health and Human Services. PHI compliance is mandatory for all healthcare firms and its covered entities or close associates that help in the storing, managing or transmitting the crucial information like the cloud service providers, partners, suppliers etc.

Things Included In PHI Compliance

Any information that covers health status and provisions and healthcare payments collected by covered entities that are linked to individuals are to be protected as per the US laws under the PHI compliance. Any healthcare details like the demographic details, health plans relating to the past/present/future, healthcare provision to the individual, payment details etc that is collected/received by the health centers or even healthcare clearinghouses falls under the PHI prerogative. This information can be subjected to the state/federal privacy rules and the security rules, but do not limit to the HIPAA (Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act) compliance. The covered entities include the health plans, healthcare clearinghouses and healthcare providers transmitting the personally-identifiable-information in electronic format connected to any of their business associate or through qualified transaction.

Healthcare Data Protection Needs For PHI Compliance

• All the healthcare centers must protect PHI (i.e. Personal Health Information) and also PII (i.e. Personally Identifiable Information).
• The healthcare systems, when connected to certain unmanaged endpoints like hospitals, physician offices, insurance carriers etc., must be secured. The data must be checked for possible invasion of virus, worm, malware, malicious codes, Trojans etc.
• Even the managed endpoints of Personal Health Information or PHI and Personally Identifiable Information or PII like desktop systems, databases, network shares and various cloud apps need to be protected.
• The PHI and PII from the managed and unmanaged endpoints are to be so protected so that they do not disrupt the existing systems or processes that are currently running.

Achieving PHI Compliance

The healthcare firms should mandatorily adhere to the regulation requirements included in the HIPAA, PII and PHI compliance. CASB solutions help healthcare firms to understand the requirements and provide adequate cloud data security solutions. The enhanced DLP Solutions by CloudCodes developed by industry experts and security analysts are so designed so as to get a comprehensive cloud security to help healthcare firms meet their compliance needs. CASB solutions help in achieving the PII, HIPAA and PHI compliance standards.

CASB Solution To Achieve PHI Compliance

• CASB solutions effectively protect individual health information and prevent any data breaches.
• These solutions prevent security compromises, unauthorized access to PHI and PII acquisitions and loss of control.
• Such solutions help generate reports based on the severity of attempts made to access the sensitive information.
• CASBs help healthcare firms to achieve greater visibility regarding the access and usage of health-related data.
• Healthcare firms have greater access to the information and its details like how, where, to whom and by whom it is being transmitted.
• Access control policies help them in designating and restricting user-level access to PHI and PII.
• Intrusion detection mechanism in place by monitoring the attempts to access PHI and PII from outside the hospital network perimeter.

CloudCodes To Health Center Rescue Towards Achieving PHI Compliance

CloudCodes CASB Solution is a great way to effectively combat data breach issues and also achieve PHI compliance. Its efficient data protection policies can be customized as per the individual healthcare center requirements. With CloudCodes CASB Solutions, healthcare centers can rest assured that their sensitive data remains safe within their four walls and that the stringent international security protocols are also met.