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HIPAA Compliance of Apollo Advance and CardioChart

The Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act (HIPAA) of 1996, also known as the Kennedy-Kassebaum bill, came about from the public's strong interest in health care reform and concern about the privacy and security of health care information.

One section in HIPAA, the Administrative Simplification provision, was developed to reduce the costs and administrative burdens of health care by making possible the standardized, electronic transmission of many administrative and financial transactions that are currently carried out manually on paper. This provision of the law required the Department of Health and Human Services (DHHS) to develop standards (also called rules or regulations) for the maintenance and transmission of these transactions. These standards were developed to:

Improve the efficiency and effectiveness of the health care system by standardizing the interchange of electronic data for the specified transactions
Protect the security and confidentiality of electronic health information

LUMEDX has taken proactive product development efforts to enhance Apollo Advance to enable its customers with the HIPAA-compliant security features. Specifically:

Ability to set minimum and maximum length password for user passwords
Requires alpha, numeric, non-alpha numeric, upper case or lower case characters in password
Mandatory password change by establishes process for the SA to require mandatory password changes at set intervals
Allows users with proper permission to lock patient records at the event level
Ability to lock individual workstation
Provides automatic shutdown of Apollo Advance workstations
Multiple instances of Apollo Advance running on a single workstation will be supported, allowing users to continue to use the workstation

Additional security features include:

Audit Trail: Strengthens the current audit trail to track users who change passwords, have auto shutdown sessions, etc.
Secret Question: Stores a secret question and answer to identify a user remotely in case their password is forgotten, provides a new one
Increased capacity for NoAccess Filters: Increased the number of entries an SA can have to restrict access to a particular filter

Apollo Advance is fully compliant with all pertinent aspects of HIPAA, regardless of whether or not the bill eventually becomes law. The LUMEDX Corporation has endorsed the security standards raised by HIPAA and is committed to protecting patient privacy and exceeding the specifications of our clients and our partners. Privacy and security are the essence of our software solutions, and we invite you to read our Privacy and Security Policy, our Editorial and Advertising Policy, and our Terms and Conditions of Use. Feel free to browse throughout LUMEDX.com, and CardioChart.com, and please read our Mission Statement in the "About Us" section of LUMEDX.com.

CardioChart HIPAA compliance

The Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act (HIPAA) rulings that were due out in early 2000 have been delayed. It is expected that they will mandate high standards for data privacy, including administrative procedures, physical safeguards, and technical data security services. HIPAA will also require technical security mechanisms for guarding data integrity, confidentiality, and availability. In accordance, CardioChart incorporates a security policy that:

Ensures the integrity and confidentiality of information
Protects against reasonably anticipated threats or hazards to the security or integrity of the information
Protects against unauthorized use or disclosure of information