AWS HIPAA Compliance Checklist

Posted by Anna Boyko on March 24th, 2020

AWS HIPAA Compliance: Best Practices Checklist

The healthcare industry is facing a new evolutionary wave of digital IT technologies, which is ushering in a new era of global computing.

This new direction of transformation and innovation requires other approaches to building health care solutions. To drive innovation and build unprecedented solutions, we need to abandon the traditional approach and move to cloud architecture. Today, every industry uses cloud technology in one way or another.

Today, most healthcare companies see the benefits of cloud technology and see it as a way to make the care they provide more convenient and better. This gradually moves the operations toward the cloud. Healthcare organizations seeking to deliver high-quality patient outcomes are focused on decision-making and advanced medicine, using innovative technologies such as mobility, IoT, AI, Big Data and cloud computing.

But when it comes to security and compliance, the approach to delivering them in the cloud is much different than on the premises. Lack of security and privacy are two major issues facing healthcare organizations when choosing a cloud solution. To overcome these problems, healthcare providers must select a reliable cloud provider that operates in full compliance with the provisions of the Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act (HIPAA) 1996.

Amazon Web Services (AWS) is a cloud-based security platform where healthcare organizations can innovate. AWS offers a comprehensive list of AWS HIPAA services for developing large-scale, secure and disruptive solutions that can solve an unlimited number of medical situations.

In this article, we will discuss the technical implementation of AWS HIPAA compliance requirements.

So let's learn how to meet the AWS HIPAA requirements!