In 1996, Congress passed the Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act ("HIPAA"). HIPAA was designed to reduce the administrative costs of healthcare, to promote the confidentiality and portability of patient records, to develop standards for consistency in the health care industry, and to provide an incentive for electronic communications.

HIPAA applies to any health care providers, health plans and clearinghouses (collectively "Covered Entities") that electronically maintain or transmit health information pertaining to individuals. Covered Entities must have appropriate measures that address the physical, technical and administrative components of patient data privacy.

With the exception of small health plans, all Covered Entities must have data security standards in place by April 21, 2005. Small health plans are exempted until April 21, 2006.

For more information about HIPAA, please visit their website here: HIPAA

 How We Help

HIPAA compliant information systems require a combination of administrative procedures, physical safeguards and technical measures to protect patient information during storage and transmission across communication networks. As a significant part of your overall contingency plan, Lakeview Data Vault provides secure, automated data transmission and storage services for data backup andrecovery. At Lakeview Data Vault we make sure you are HIPAA compliant with the following features:

• Fully automated data backups at secure off-site facilities.
• No hardware to buy or manage.
• No media to buy, rotate, catalog or store offsite.
• All data is encrypted for security.
• Data can be easily restored on-demand 24x7.
• Restricted password access - a secret encryption key can be specified for ultimate security so we can't even access your data.