Paul Trulove, Vice President of Product Management, SailPoint: Recent changes to HIPAA/HITECH legislation have heightened regulatory requirements, requiring healthcare organizations to document access policies as well as employees’ and contractors’ individual access rights in order to satisfy the requirements of compliance audits and to demonstrate Meaningful Use.As a result, healthcare organizations now face significant challenges and are under increasing scrutiny around how they protect and secure access to patients’ private healthcare information. To solve these challenges, healthcare organizations should put in place automated, governance-based controls to align access policy with process across the organization.
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