HIPAA Compliance IT Support for Healthcare & Pharmaceuticals

HIPAA compliance IT support is essential for healthcare organizations operating within a complex regulatory environment. Not only are you trying to protect sensitive patient data, but your work supports the operational efficiency of your entire organization – impacting lives and enhancing care. As a trusted managed service provider with over a decade of experience, Compuwork delivers comprehensive data security, disaster recovery, and continuous monitoring solutions built for covered entities and business associates in the healthcare industry. Schedule A HIPAA Compliance IT Support Consultation

Healthcare & Pharmaceuticals

Compuwork helps medical and dental practices slash the cost of buying and managing technology, from strategy and planning to full outsourced management.

  • Meet Current HIPPA Regulations
  • Provide Frequent Reports of Our Processes with You
  • Disaster Recovery
  • Manage Software Updates
  • Firewall Installation and Management
  • Compliance with Increasing Government Regulations
  • Cloud Computing
  • Ensure Applications are Operational at All Times
  • Increase Security and Protection
  • Reduce Overall Time Spent on IT
  • Helpdesk and On-Site Support
  • Software Updates
  • Email Encryption
  • Prevent System Failures 

Why Trust Compuwork for HIPAA Compliance IT Support?

Compuwork’s medical IT services help support your workflows, improve collaborative medicine, enable secure information sharing, and streamline communication with your patients – all while ensuring HIPAA compliance.

Keeping that technology up and running 24/7/365 is a multifaceted challenge in healthcare. Medical providers don’t always have the resources to own their infrastructure and keep it operating at peak performance every minute of every day.

Compuwork’s outsourced IT services help healthcare providers keep their systems secure, stable, and well managed.

Our Healthcare & Pharmaceuticals Data Security and Data Protection Services

Compuwork helps medical and dental practices slash the cost of buying and managing technology. From strategy and planning to full outsourced management.

Our HIPAA-compliant IT services address the many unique challenges healthcare providers face. From safeguarding sensitive information and electronic protected health information to meeting HIPAA security rule and HIPAA privacy rule requirements set by Health and Human Services.

Our Enhanced Security Measures Include:

  • Disaster Recovery and data backups
  • Managing Software Updates
  • Firewall Installation and Management
  • Compliance with Government and HIPAA 
  • Regulations
  • Cloud Computing
  • Ensuring Applications are Operational at All Times
  • Increasing Security and Protection
  • Reducing Overall Time Spent on IT
  • Helpdesk and On-Site Support
  • Software Updates
  • Email Encryption
  • Preventing System Failures

HIPAA Compliance Process and Technical Safeguards

Maintaining HIPAA compliance requires more than basic security standards. You need a systematic approach to data protection that addresses every aspect of the Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act.

Our HIPAA compliance process helps healthcare organizations implement the technical safeguards and data encryption standards required to protect patient data.

We support HIPAA compliance through:

  • HIPAA Compliance Checklist: Get a clear understanding of what your healthcare practice needs to stay ahead of any updated regulatory compliance requirements.
  • Risk Assessments: Regular evaluations that identify vulnerabilities in your systems and procedures to demonstrate compliance during audits
  • Access Control: Technical controls that ensure only authorized team members can access protected health information.
  • Data Encryption: Enhanced protection for electronic protected health information at rest and in transit, including secure file sharing.
  • Audit Logs: Comprehensive tracking that maintains compliance documentation in a consistent manner

Continuous Monitoring: Proactive oversight, detecting potential data breaches and cyber threats before they impact patient care

HIPAA Compliance IT Support FAQ

What is HIPAA compliance IT support? Why do covered entities need it?

HIPAA compliance IT support is designed to help healthcare organizations meet the most stringent HIPAA security requirements. This includes technical safeguards, data encryption, access control, and continuous monitoring.

Covered entities and business associates are required to protect patient electronic protected health information in accordance with the HIPAA Security Rule and the HIPAA Privacy Rule. The best managed service providers have the necessary healthcare industry expertise to ensure your organization maintains compliance.

How do managed service providers help maintain HIPAA compliance requirements?

The best managed service providers work to support HIPAA compliance by implementing security measures required under HIPAA standards. These requirements include risk assessments, data encryption, access control, audit logs, and disaster recovery.

These services help healthcare providers build and implement procedures to protect patient health information, conduct regular security evaluations, and maintain technical controls.

What technical safeguards are required for HIPAA-compliant data protection?

HIPAA-compliant data protection requires specific technical safeguards, such as access controls that limit who can view electronic protected health information and data encryption that protects sensitive data at rest and in transit. The best managed services will also include processes for audit logs, tracking system access, and data backup, ensuring disaster recovery capabilities.

What should healthcare organizations look for in a HIPAA compliance IT partner?

Every healthcare organization should look for IT partners that have proven experience supporting HIPAA compliance in the healthcare industry. As you look for managed service providers, seek a partner that offers comprehensive risk assessments, enhanced security measures, compliance with business associate agreements, and disaster recovery solutions.