and a Hard Place [HIPAA Compliance] To do that and maintain his compliance with HIPAA
and with Payment Card Industry (PCI) data security standards, his team first set up virtual LANs on Cisco Systems Inc. switches to cordon off certain areas of the network and beef up security, Mann said. To keep patient data locked down, the team then set up a policy enforcement firewall on the wireless side. Then they slowly rolled out the wireless in the health care buildings and tested for vulnerabilities.
Practice Continuous Care Secure, HIPAA-compliant health care wireless
networks begin with a locked-down wired network, stressed both Mann and Scott Vachon, manager of network services for the Laconia, N.H.-based two- hospital LRGHealthcare system. Once access to those areas is properly limited and secured, wireless security with encryption and traffic routing and policies can be tackled. “My CIO and I both come from financial companies,
so we’re schooled in PCI,” Vachon said. “[PCI and HIPAA] are not so different. We practice defense in depth, so everything we do, we start at ‘no’, then work our way out and say, “What do we need to open up to meet your requirements?” Mann stresses that HIPAA privacy compliance
is an ongoing process. After the hospital wireless network becomes operational, the work has just begun. Maintaining security is a matter of testing and retesting, as well as going over areas where maintenance operations could affect wireless gear and its function. “For us it’s not a case of ‘set it and forget it’,” Mann
said. “It’s something that we’ve brought along, something we’ve grown. But we continue to monitor it, we continue to have third-party vendors come in and do testing on it.”
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