Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act (HIPAA) Business Continuity Requirements Checklist

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The Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act (HIPAA) required for health care providers (and others in the health care industry) to protect personal data, especially health care information. It requires companies to create policies and procedures to ensure this data is kept confidential and is shared only with authorized parties. In its original form, it was intended to establish national standards for electronic health care transactions and to ensure the security and privacy of health data.

Such requirements for Business Continuity / Disaster Recovery are:
1. Initial response.
2. Notification.
3. Problem assessment.
4. Escalation.
5. Disaster declaration.
6. Plan activation.
7. Plan implementation activities and logistics.
8. Disaster recovery phase implementation.
9. Business continuity phase implementation.
10. Resumption and normalization of business activities.
11. Review of event, revision of BC/DR plan based on lessons learned.