hey all, I have a few clients who are doctors running small practices. They have small LAN's and DSL connectinos behind a simple NAT router/firewall in one case and persoanl FW's in the other (unfortunatly not my decision in either case).
Each has approached me about the HIPAA certs in the last week. I have read through what seams reams of pages on it b ut have been unable to deduce anything other than general good security practices. Strong passwords, offsite encrypted backups, real firewalls, etc and so on. Can anyone shed some light onto this subject or point me to a document with only the IT requirements prefereably boiled down to something simple? And also has anyone had any experience yet with the HIPAA investigators or quality control people checking on a site? any ideas what they are looking for? I understand it is a 20k dollar fine for each infraction so I would hate for it to be on my watch. tia Jason Hastain Hastain Consulting