HIPAA Compliant Cloud Hosting

Despite headline-grabbing breaches experienced by leading healthcare providers and insurers, HIPAA covers very little in terms of security. Scan through the regulations, and you won’t find information as basic as firewalls or antivirus software listed. Since there is not a prescription for achieving HIPAA compliance, many providers have resorted to selling what they consider to be “HIPAA Compliance in a Box.” They bundle their various security services and claim that it achieves all of the HIPAA compliant hosting requirements.

Why trust a pre-packaged solution, when you can rely on real HIPAA compliance expertise from HOSTING?

HIPAA isn’t about checking a series of boxes. It’s about measuring and managing risk through continuous assessment, evaluation, response, and reporting of threats to protected health information (PHI) – including the threat of downtime and/or data loss. That’s why leading healthcare organizations rely on the rigorous compliance management services that HOSTING provides through our HIPAA Compliance as a Service.

HOSTING has the strongest security and credential credentials in the industry. We have always been dedicated to building and managing highly available solutions backed by multi-site disaster recovery and continual testing – services that most healthcare-focused providers are missing.

HOSTING Compliance Risk AssessmentTM

The HOSTING Compliance Risk Assessment for HIPAA Compliance is conducted per the HIPAA Security Rule 45 CFR 164.308(a) (1) and 45 CFR 164 308(a) (8). It meets HIPAA and HITECH compliance requirements for covered entities (CEs) and their business associates (BAs).

HOSTING 100% Audit AssuranceTM

Having completed more than 400 customer security assessments at a 100% pass rate, HOSTING is one of the few cloud service providers to offer 100% Audit Assurance. HOSTING guarantees that certain compliance services provided to our customers will be able to pass assessments for several industry standard security frameworks and regulatory obligations for their hosted environments. In the event that those services become an impediment to compliance, HOSTING will fix the gap at our own expense, or allow the customer out of its contract with no penalty and issue the customer a refund (up to one month’s service).

Comprehensive Business Associate Agreements (BAAs)

At just three pages, the HOSTING BAA is concise and to the point, clearly outlining each party’s rights and obligations with regarding to safeguarding PHI. Healthcare customers get the legal protections for HIPAA compliance without the administrative hassles they might experience with another cloud hosting provider during BAA negotiations.

HOSTING HIPAA Compliant Cloud Hosting and Managed Services

HOSTING ensures that its datacenters, employees, procedures, processes, and policies meet the HIPAA Administrative Safeguards (45 C.F.R. 164.308) and Physical Safeguards (45 C.F.R. 164.310) applicable to HIPAA Business Associates. Further, HOSTING HIPAA Compliant Cloud HOSTING and Managed Services help HOSTING customers address the HIPAA Technical Safeguards (45 C.F.R. 164.312).

Related Documents

Datasheet: HOSTING Security and Compliance Services for HIPAA
Datasheet: Compliance Risk Assessment
Datasheet: HOSTING Healthcare Cloud
Webinar: HIPAA Compliance: Simple Steps to the Healthcare Cloud
Webinar: Can Your Healthcare Organization Get Hacked?

Business Associate Agreement

HOSTING takes our customers’ compliance requirements seriously. Unlike many cloud providers, we sign Business Associate Agreements (BAAs) with our healthcare clients. And we keep our BAAs concise and to the point.

HIPAA Capabilities

Our in-house healthcare compliant hosting experts collaborate with the world’s leading healthcare organizations to help them mitigate risk, manage requirements and remain compliant.

100% Audit Assurance

HOSTING offers a complete range of compliant hosting services to satisfy HIPAA and PCI obligations. All HOSTING Assured Tier Compliance Services are backed by our 100% Audit Assurance guarantee.

Compliance Controls

Achieving compliance is only the beginning. The HOSTING compliance team is available to monitor critical controls to ensure an organization’s cloud environment remains compliant.

Compliance Solutions

Led by our in-house, dedicated Chief Information Security Officer, the HOSTING compliance team provides the tools, resources and expertise to ensure organizations achieve and maintain compliance.

ITIL Methodology

The HOSTING service delivery model is based on ITIL – accepted worldwide as the leading IT delivery methodology – and is fully customized to meet the specific needs of our customers.


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