The standard

Title II of the Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act (HIPAA) addresses the privacy and security of sensitive patient data. At the highest level, HIPAA establishes that organizations have control over who accesses healthcare information.

The IT challenge

A key part of ensuring authorized access to health information lies in controlling where that information resides. And with an increasingly mobile workforce, enforcing control becomes more difficult — and more critical. Recent scares regarding compromised patient data in the healthcare arena have brought renewed focus on data protection and the need to ensure enforcement of established compliance guidelines.

Automated support and HIPAA

Enforcing policy regarding sensitive data is an ongoing challenge — especially in organizations with a mobile workforce. Persystent Enterprise uses flexible policies to dictate the areas of a desktop’s operating environment designated for repair and can include the operating system, applications, registry and user settings — and can even ensure that a change to any file on a computer (including user-stored data) is repaired to exactly match that device's approved configuration.

The end result is that control over sensitive data, which might be mistakenly stored locally, is maintained without any extra effort on the part of IT. Persystent also provides detailed reporting on what files were repaired and when, leaving an audit trail that proves IT is in control of desktops and laptops no matter where they reside.

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