Nearly all U.S. health care providers must operate according to the HIPAA, which includes protecting all sensitive patient data. With government and insurance reimbursements on the line, health providers initiated the process of digitizing their records and converted them to electronic creation, management, transmission, and storage of patient records. Data security now comprises a critical aspect of the business of health care.
While the Dept. of Health and Human Services (HHS), the monitors of HIPAA compliance, offers no specifics on how to destroy data when the electronic components storing the information reach the end of their useful life. Health providers must eliminate patient data in such a way as to render it unreadable and unrecoverable. Several options exist to accomplish this, with some more secure than others.
Computer hard drives, CDs, and solid-state storage equipment that you can overwrite or erase. However, if improperly accomplished, a determined data thief, using forensic methods, potentially could retrieve important data from the apparatuses. The most secure method is total on-site media destruction of the devices containing the information. The second best method is to ship the units via a bonded courier to a trusted, certified destruction facility and then receive a certificate of destruction on job completion..
Phiston Technologies is the leader in innovative machines designed to completely destroy data on-site to forestall any data breaches. The products are available for both HDD and SSD destruction. You can use these products on a desktop or mounted in a server rack. Any health provider or data server catering to the health industry can have instant access to 40,000 pounds of crushing, mangling force within their own facility. Because all Phiston machines can be compact, quick, safe, and hands-off, it’s quite easy to use our powerful media destroyers.
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