HITECH Act Compliance

What is HITECH?
The Health Information Technology for Economic and Clinical Health (HITECH) Act was set in motion in 2009 as part of the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act. It provides the healthcare industry over $31 billion in stimulus funds dedicated to infrastructure improvements, including the adoption of Electronic Health Records (EHR). In addition, HITECH addresses new privacy requirements for patient health information for Protected Health Information (PHI) security, breach notification and penalties for non-compliance.

How do companies comply with HITECH?
To comply with HITECH, companies must secure PHI data in motion, at rest or in use. According to the Federal Register, the Department of Health and Human Services recommends deploying encryption in order to secure PHI in motion. Data encryption renders "electronic PHI unusable, unreadable or indecipherable to unauthorized persons."

How does CipherOptics help?
When you need to encrypt your data in motion, CipherOptics makes it easy. Whether you need to protect a single link, or your entire network, we eliminate the complexity of encrypting today's networks.

Our solutions combine standards-based, wire-speed encryption appliances with CipherEngine, the only policy definition and key distribution technology designed for multi-node networks. Together, they give you the highest level of data protection at the lowest total cost. CipherEngine gives you the power to protect data in motion wherever, however and whenever you want, without changes or disruptions to your network, your infrastructure, or your operations.

Deploying the CipherEngine solution ensures your electronic PHI will be secured, exempting you from costly breach notifications.

To see just how easy it can be to comply with HITECH, call 1-877-878-6655 or feel free to ask us a question.

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