IronMail for HIPAA

The Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act (HIPAA) provides regulations regarding the security of Protected Health Information (PHI), which is defined as any individually identifiable health care information. Covered Entities which include all health care organizations, health insurance companies, and employer-based health plans are required to ensure that protected information is stored and transmitted securely.

Simply complying with HIPAA, however, is only half the battle. CE’s must also ensure their ability to communicate with other organizations. Because of a lack of standards within the health care community, some organizations may be employing technologies such as S/MIME or PGP encryption, while others utilize secure connection technologies such as TLS or HTTPS. The effect is that any two organizations, each complying with HIPAA regulations in their own way, may be unable to communicate electronically due to a lack of standardization within the industry.

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Beyond encryption issues, CE’s need to maintain system confidentiality, integrity, and availability of information. At all times, the network should not be at risk of downtime due to hacking attempts, Denial of Service (DOS) attacks, spam attacks, phishing, social engineering, or viruses.

IronMail addresses these issues by moving the encryption responsibility from the individual user to a specialized gateway, and utilizes a system that can select from a number of encryption technologies depending upon the recipient’s technological capabilities. IronMail applies encryption policies based on heuristics determined by the security officer, administrator, or business rules. While individual users have the ability to specify that a message be encrypted, encryption policies can also be automatically applied where appropriate regardless of user involvement.

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