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UKCloud Health Offers HIPAA Compliant Cloud Hosting
June 2017 by Emmanuelle Lamandé
UKCloud Health, the specialist healthcare division of
UKCloud, has announced that its cloud hosting services are compliant with
HIPAA (the Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act of 1996), US
legislation that provides for the safeguarding of citizens’ medical information
using a framework of data privacy and security provisions.
HIPAA safeguards Protected Health Information (PHI), including any type of
individually identifiable health information which is transmitted or maintained in
any form or medium. An established piece of legislation in the US, HIPAA is not a
requirement for UK providers unless they deliver services to US healthcare bodies.
UKCloud Health now enables its partner community to offer their services to the US
market by utilising one compliant cloud platform.
UKCloud Health’s customers include many National Health Service organisations and
a wide spectrum of related healthcare bodies, that create, manage or process large
volumes of sensitive patient data. Under HIPAA, each customer is a “Covered
Entity”, while UKCloud Health acts as a “Business Associate”, providing the
management of PHI on their behalf.
