What does HIPAA really mean?

[Irongeek]

Ok, I’ve been Googling around, and I understand that the basics of HIPAA (Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act) from a computer security perspective is to keep all patient information on a need to know basis. But when I look around for real tech guidelines all I get is loose “policy” information, nothing like “You must use at least 104 bit WEP on WAPS” or anything technical. My question is, what does HIPAA really mean from a security tech’s perspective? How do you know your “compliant”?

[t34b4g5]

HIPAA email trial accounts are available at http://securemedical.net and http://mdemail.net

I have approved this post, as it has relevance to the Topic and will enable people interested access to "trial accounts".