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Re: Healthcare Standards and Regulations
From: Jason Kolpin <jasonk () ncat org>
Date: Fri, 16 Apr 2010 10:01:03 -0600
John, THANK YOU!This is the start of exactly what I was looking for. I am attuned to the Cisco track of thinking as I have done CCNA, CCNP, VOIP, and CCIS courses.
If you have any other healthcare related links from Cisco laying around I would greatly appreciate you tossing them out there as well.
The project I am talking about has nothing to do with my current work nor who I work for which would explain why I felt this request was such a daunting task for one person to tackle. I live in Montana and most technology folks have their tickets to leave the state weeks before they graduate. I got lucky and remain at home.
Jason Kolpin John Morrison wrote:
Jason, It looks like many suppliers have moved on from selling HIPAA compliance to a wider sales pitch. Also, I found the same as you that the official sites don't give any information that is detailed enough. This is in contrast to, say, PCI that has clear guidance and check lists. All I could find with diagrams was the following: Sun B2B Suite HIPAA Protocol Manager User's Guide http://docs.sun.com/app/docs/doc/820-1277/agcjh?a=view Cisco Healthcare Security Perspectives: Protect Your Patients, Your Practice, Yourself Technical Implementation Guide http://www.cisco.com/web/strategy/docs/healthcare/health_security_impgd.pdf (Page 11 has the first) Plus some templates at http://www.endhack.com/better_than_templates.htm Has your California office already done all the work and you can copy this? Could the Montana Department of Public Health & Human Services provide any help? There may be some books on Amazon. On 15 April 2010 20:22, Jason Kolpin <jasonk () ncat org> wrote:I've looked here and now have looked again. Is it just me or is there absolutely no cut and dry guidance for the physical and logical network design regulations for healthcare IT infrastructures? I can sit and read and read to get my one or two sentences per document that covers what I am positive is a tiny chunk of the entire whole, but is this really necessary? Somewhere there must be some cut and dry list of HIPAA requirements for IT infrastructure, segmentation, firewalling, and data security. I'm not so concerned about the software or services, I am positive I can manage that what I am concerned about is not having the email server sharing a zone that their medical records zone is or whatever the requirements may be. I'm also concerned about network user policy and the regulations that apply there as well including vlan implementation, what doctors should be able to see and do as well as what others should and should not be able to do. Nice guess at California as we have offices there, I am in MT though. I also must note that at a glance the suggestion from another post to read NIST P-800-66 looks promising to a degree. Jason Kolpin Web Specialist National Center for Appropriate Technology www.ncat.org John Morrison wrote:Jason, As you are in California I assume the main regulation is HIPAA. Have you tried the HIPAA Resource Center (http://www.aishealth.com/Compliance/HIPAAResource.html) as a starting point? Also, do the suppliers of the products have any literature? On 14 April 2010 23:22, Jason Kolpin <jasonk () ncat org> wrote:Hello! I have been approached by a small medical practice to build an infrastructure from the ground up. After some research I decided I knew nothing about best practices and such in this environment, these folks are in a rural area and have no clue who to contact, I am at a loss as well other than a big company like Seimans or something. It would be greatly appreciated if anyone on this list knew of a place where I could get some solid information on this subject, refer these folks to a company that does this sort of thing, or offer some advice for a situation such as this. It's not like I am completely clueless concerning server setup and stuff like that, I work IT, I am more interested in security related information such as typical physical layout for the network, IE firewalling and data/service separation issues. Excuse my ignorance here as this is completely new to me. I have been asked about LIS, RIS, PM, patient records server, scheduling/calendar, billing, email server, domain controller, VPN from two locations and some more. I'm just looking for some simple "stick man" drawings of a typical physical layout using this type of stuff, as well as a place I might go to find out about required/mandated policies and such, and even a few hints on policies you may know that you find important in a situation such as this. FYI I have already informed these people I am not the man for the job as the risk is too great for me should something bad happen but they are probably going to use me as a consultant, they have no IT staff and are completely clueless about how the simplest of things work. I know this is a lot to ask of a mailing list so no surprise if I get no response. -- Jason Kolpin Web Specialist National Center for Appropriate Technology www.ncat.org ------------------------------------------------------------------------ Securing Apache Web Server with thawte Digital Certificate In this guide we examine the importance of Apache-SSL and who needs an SSL certificate. 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