{"id":10537,"date":"2014-04-11T15:01:32","date_gmt":"2014-04-11T15:01:32","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.cloudcomputing-news.net\/blog-hub\/2014\/apr\/11\/healthcare-cloud-security-now-and-into-the-future\/"},"modified":"2014-04-11T15:01:32","modified_gmt":"2014-04-11T15:01:32","slug":"healthcare-cloud-security-now-and-into-the-future","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/icloud.pe\/blog\/healthcare-cloud-security-now-and-into-the-future\/","title":{"rendered":"Healthcare cloud security: Now and into the future"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em>By David Linthicum<\/em><\/p>\n<p>Healthcare providers and payers that utilize cloud platforms to store and access personnel records (and like data) are probably storing protected health information (&ldquo;PHI&rdquo;), which is protected by the Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act of 1996 (&ldquo;HIPAA&rdquo;). Rules now in place govern the use of cloud computing to store health-related data, including personnel-related data.&nbsp; The consequences for failure to comply can be severe to a company&rsquo;s bottom line, including some heavy fines and PR nightmares.<\/p>\n<p>In March of last year, the Department of Health and Human Services (&ldquo;HHS&rdquo;) finalized the HIPAA Omnibus Rule, which made the regulation more cloud friendly.&nbsp; This rule expanded HIPAA&rsquo;s applicability beyond covered entities (health care providers and\/or payer) to business associates. By definition, a &ldquo;business associate&rdquo; is a person or entity that creates, receives, maintains, or transmits PHI in the course of fulfilling certain functions or activities for &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>By David Linthicum<br \/>\nHealthcare providers and payers that utilize cloud platforms to store and access personnel records (and like data) are probably storing protected health information (&ldquo;PHI&rdquo;), which is protected by the Health Insurance Port&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":9,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-10537","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/icloud.pe\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10537","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/icloud.pe\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/icloud.pe\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/icloud.pe\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/9"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/icloud.pe\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=10537"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/icloud.pe\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10537\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/icloud.pe\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=10537"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/icloud.pe\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=10537"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/icloud.pe\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=10537"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}