ABSTRACT
Within the U.S. healthcare industry, increased attention is focusing on Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act (HIPAA) readiness. For the past five years, healthcare organizations (HCOs) across the country have moved to prepare their environments for compliance with the proposed HIPAA security regulations. The past five years have also proved that HIPAA security readiness will not be a point-in-time activity for HCOs. Rather, organizations will need to ensure that HIPAA security readiness becomes a part of their operational processes that need to be maintained on a go-forward basis.
