HIPAA Security

Basically HIPAA Security Rule require encryption only when individually identifiable health information is sent over a public network, such as the Internet. Encryption will not be required for other network connections, such as dial-up lines and Intranets. However to fully comply with HIPAA Security Requirement you can use Free Autokrypt 8.12.

Autokrypt designed for automation. Automatically encrypt and decrypt files and folders. Encryption methods include password based, secret key, public and private key, OpenPGP password, OpenPG, Email notification of task status. Includes private,public and OpenPGP key generator and a Key Store to manage keys. Common tasks include encrypt, decrypt, copy, zip, unzip, synchronize and file monitors. Includes scheduler to run tasks. This would be very help to become HIPAA Compliant

Protect the key information is one of the requirement of HIPAA (Health Insurance Portability and Accountability). Therefore you can use Folder Lock to comply with the regulations. Basically this application provides two levels of protection:
1. Lock files and folders,
2. Encrypt them using the 256-bit Blowfish algorithm.

For free version the size of file encryption is limited to 25 MB.

List of Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act (HIPAA) Access Control Policy:
1. Internal network resources, so these resources can all be grouped together.
If a specific resource such as a file share or database requires additional authentication, then this takes place when a user accesses the resource. The only exception to this policy of grouping all resources is a set of HR applications that only a small set of external users is authorized to access. Note that these users may not access the other internal resources that other users can access.

2. List the groups or users.
Most users are in one main group that has network connectivity to all internal resources. A smaller group is composed of external users that have access to the set of HR applications mentioned in the previous step.

3. List the conditions under which the resources should be accessible by the groups.
There are several conditions for accessing resources:

A Secure Document Management System Security is very important and mandatory requirements in many document management applications. For instance the Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act (HIPAA) requirements stated that medical documents should have certain security requirements. And such regulatory compliance such as Sarbanes Oxley, GLBA, or even security standard such as ISO 27001 or NIST 800 also requires the same security level for Document Management

One of the option available on the market today is Free Opensource KnowledgeTree, a Free Document Management System for HIPAA Compliance especially under Physical Safeguards – controlling physical access to protect against inappropriate access to protected data. Below such a feature of opensource KnowledgeTree

- KnowledgeTree is easy to use, open source document management software that seamlessly connects people, ideas, and processes to satisfy all your collaboration, compliance, and business process requirements

For HIPAA Compliance, especially for Physical Safeguards area which stated that "Access to equipment containing health information should be carefully controlled and monitored". It is very useful to use Adeona, the first Open Source system for tracking the location of your lost or stolen laptop that does not rely on a proprietary, central service.

This means that you can install Adeona on your laptop and go — there's no need to rely on a single third party. What's more, Adeona addresses a critical privacy goal different from existing