DOTmed August 18, 2025
When the Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act (HIPAA) was enacted in 1996, the purpose was to improve the delivery and reliability of patient services. The law came at a time when the healthcare industry was grappling with the implications of digitization and the regulations established by HIPAA were intended to “encourage[e] the development of a health information system through the establishment of standards and requirements for the electronic transmission of certain health information.”
Since then, the focus for compliance programs has been on maintaining healthcare data security and patient privacy. However, the regulation also seeks to ensure that covered entities operate their IT systems according to best practices and standards for achieving network resilience and high availability. This is...
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