HIPAA Compliance

Maintain HIPAA-Compliance for Smartphones and Tablets with Mobile Device Management

Smartphones and tablets are becoming an increasingly important part of the everyday work in hospitals, medical practices and other healthcare facilities. Healthcare organizations face the challenge of securing and protecting the personal health information (PHI) they process in a HIPAA-compliant manner. Learn more about HIPAA compliance and why Cortado MDM is the ideal mobile device management solution for your HIPAA-covered organization.

What Is HIPAA? What About HITECH?

The Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act of 1996 (HIPAA) is a federal U.S. law that mandates the creation of national standards to protect sensitive health information. To implement HIPAA requirements, the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) issued the HIPAA Privacy Rule and the HIPAA Security Rule.

While the HIPAA Privacy Rule addresses the protection of protected health information (PHI) in general, the Security Rule is specifically aimed at the protection of electronic PHI (e-PHI). This includes any individually identifiable health information that a covered entity creates, receives, maintains, or transmits in electronic form. These entities are required to take appropriate steps to protect this information.

In 2009, the HITECH Act was created to further promote and expand the adoption of health information technology and to remove loopholes in HIPAA. It made sure that entities found not to be in HIPAA compliance could be issued with a substantial fine.

How MDM Can Help Solve the HIPAA Challenges

HIPAA requirements affect all type of devices. Health care providers are challenged to implement technology and procedures that will protect e-PHI according to the HIPAA Security Rule, even when using mobile devices.

With our mobile device management solution, you have all you need to do that. With Cortado MDM, you can centrally manage devices and implement policies to secure and process healthcare information on mobile devices in a HIPAA-compliant manner.

In line with the recommendations made by HealthIT.gov, Cortado MDM allows you to:

• Enforce password and user authentication  
• Ensure the device’s encryption capabilities are enabled 
• Remotely wipe or disable mobile devices 
• Control the user’s ability to share information on the device with other applications and users 
• Install and enforce security standards and software 
• Keep software up to date 
• Manage and roll out corporate applications and keep sensitive data confined to these applications 
• Control which networks users can use, avoiding the use of insecure public networks. 

All this easily and securely from your central management console in the cloud.