HIPAA Compliant Hosting
Learn how Dash HIPAA compliant hosting helps teams build and manage compliant applications.
What Is HIPAA Compliant Hosting?
When building healthcare applications, websites, and other services that utilize patient data or protected health information (PHI), organizations must comply with HIPAA regulations. Selecting a HIPAA compliant hosting provider is the first step to building a HIPAA compliant application. HIPAA compliant hosts provide servers and infrastructure that can be utilized with PHI. Organizations can use HIPAA compliant cloud services to build healthcare applications, software solutions, and manage process and utilize PHI.
Just using a HIPAA hosting provider does not automatically make your organization HIPAA compliant. Organizations must implement appropriate administrative and technical safeguards for ensuring compliance standards. Most HIPAA compliant hosting providers offer infrastructure that addresses HIPAA physical safeguards. Organizations may build healthcare solutions on this infrastructure but must be sure to develop applications that follow HIPAA administrative and technical standards. This means that organizations must have administrative policies in place and implement technical solutions such as backup and disaster recovery, audit logging, and vulnerability scanning.
HIPAA Hosting Use Cases
Websites
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Cloud Applications
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APIs and Services
Develop HIPAA compliant APIs, functions, and processing services
Does Using HIPAA Hosting Make My Organization HIPAA Compliant?
HIPAA compliant hosting providers generally provide a signed Business Associates Agreement (BAA) and address HIPAA physical security controls. This means that the cloud infrastructure must be physically secured using locks, employee access to infrastructure must be limited, facility access and maintenance must be recorded. In addition to physical safeguards, HIPAA compliant hosting providers must have contingency plans in case of an outage or emergency and must notify clients in the event of a security breach.
Cloud service providers and hosting providers are responsible for HIPAA safeguards including:
- Signed Business Associates Agreement (BAA)
- Facility Access and Security
- Facility Maintenance Records
- Contingency Plans
- Breach Notification
- PHI Disposal and Reuse
Dash ComplyOps makes it easy for your team to build, manage and host HIPAA compliant applications in the public cloud. Learn how your team can build a HIPAA security program and create HIPAA compliant applications.
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Steps To Building HIPAA Compliant Solutions
Dash ComplyOps provides a HIPAA compliant hosting solution and makes it easy for your team to build and manage HIPAA compliant healthcare applications in the cloud. Teams can work with Dash and take the following steps to build and host HIPAA compliant solutions.
Sign Cloud BAA
Dash works alongside the cloud provider’s business associates’ agreement (BAA). This means that your team can leverage the physical and administrative safeguards provided by AWS and similar cloud providers.
Set Administrative Policies
Teams can utilize the Dash Policy Center to build a set of administrative policies to meet HIPAA administrative requirements. Dash policies enable your team to set standard operating procedures around employee training, auditing and assessment, and application security.
Implement Technical Controls
Dash continuous compliance monitoring enables your team to create cloud security controls around technical standards such as access control, encryption, backup, and networking. Teams can ensure that compliance standards are met and hosted solutions are do not fall out of compliance.
Dash HIPAA Compliant Hosting
Dash ComplyOps provides teams with a HIPAA compliant hosting solution. Teams can build custom administrative policies, setting cloud security controls, and enforcing policies via continuous compliance monitoring. Dash makes it easy to build, manage, and host HIPAA compliant applications in the cloud/
Dash is comprised of cloud and healthcare compliance experts an AWS Advanced Technology Partner and Healthcare Competency Partner. Learn how your team can leverage Dash ComplyOps can rapidly achieve HIPAA compliance in the cloud.
- Create Your HIPAA Security Program
- Deploy and host HIPAA compliant applications
- Manage and maintain HIPAA compliance
Custom Administrative Policies
Build HIPAA administrative policies around your organization and your technology.
Compliance Monitoring
Dash Continuous Compliance Monitoring automatically scans and monitors your cloud environment for HIPAA compliance issues.
High Security Standards
Leverage the established security programs and certifications provided by Amazon Web Services.
Advanced Reporting
Advanced compliance reports allows your team to get an instant view into your state of compliance
Technology Agnostic
Build on any number of technologies. From docker containers to virtual machines, your organization can build compliant solutions.
AWS Driven
Build on 100+ AWS services and scale your cloud services to meet your needs.
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