Compliance with HIPAA is mandatory for healthcare provider and payer organizations of all sizes. For healthcare organizations there are obvious drivers to adequately secure networks beyond HIPAA compliance. These include ensuring the safety and security of patient information, minimizing the impact that security events on IT devices can have on clinical medical equipment (and vice versa), avoiding costly security breaches, and reducing operational costs such as help desk support.

Bradford’s Network Sentry family helps significantly address HIPAA compliance requirements, with full or partial coverage of:

• 11 out of 18 HIPAA Standards
• 14 out of 42 HIPAA Specifications 
• 15 out of 43 items on the Piedmont DHHS Audit checklist