EHR and HIPAA: How to Ensure Patient Information Security?

Health providers have increasingly migrated from paper charts to Electronic Health Records (EHRs), thanks to digitalization. EHR can provide convenience, efficiency, and improved data management for care practice. However, providers who use EHRs must follow HIPAA regulations for securing patient information. Unfortunately, not all EHRs today conform to HIPAA. Recent years have witnessed high-profile security breaches, and as a result, it has become important to choose an EHR system that adheres to HIPAA standards to protect patient data.

EHR platforms give healthcare providers a secure, care-focused way to maintain and organize patient records. When dealing with sensitive health care data, it is natural to take HIPAA compliance into account as well. HIPAA regulation for EHRs requires care providers to comply with national security and privacy standards to safeguard health information. The two go hand-in-hand to protect healthcare practice, all while providing patients with a higher quality of care. Thus, it is important for care providers to make sure that their employees can access the information they absolutely need and nothing more. In addition to determining the field and particulars of the patient data that each user can see, healthcare firms also need to decide what each one can and cannot do with that data. This is a part of the HIPAA requirements, and it is referred to as ’integrity’ stated in the technical safeguards.