There are several steps a medical practice must take to ensure its wireless network remains secure and electronic health records are unavailable to unauthorized users. When you employ HIPAA compliant wireless security standards you pay attention to:
(1) Access Control: Control who is granted access to your resources,
(2) Auditing: Maintain logs of who has accessed your wireless system,
(3) Data Integrity: Ensure patient data has not been changed by an unauthorized user during transmission or storage,
(4) Person Authentication: Authenticate that the person who the computer says is logged in is really the correct person,
(5) Transmission Security: Ensure network transmissions are kept private.
In order to achieve these goals, use a combination of high end commercial wireless hardware and software which encrypts and logs your wireless network traffic. This ensures unauthorized users cannot gain access to your data.
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