Independent Discovery (ID) ensures the safety and security of confidential information. Confidential information includes both personal health records (PHR) and personal health information (PHI).
We begin by extensively screening and hiring our registered nurses and other legal professionals. Then, we implement a data security system that surpasses the letter of the law in order to protect our clients.
Below is an overview of how we keep your confidential information safe.
ID employees analyze medical data via GNU/Linux computers. These computers cannot access information outside of ID’s document management system. Further, we restrict browsing, the use of instant messages and any other activity not critical to analysis of medical records and composition of medical summations.
Finally, we track access of every opened file on our encrypted storage server. Thus, ID can detect irregularities in real time.
ID complies with the regulations set forth in the Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act of 1996 ("HIPAA") and the latest guidelines of HITECH. Every ID client receives a private, encrypted storage volume that ensures protection of sensitive data. Moreover, in the event of data theft, the data would be indecipherable.
Through constant training of our registered nurses and other legal professionals, hardware restrictions on our computers (such as removal of all USB and FireWire ports) and real time auditing by qualified administrators, we meet and exceed all applicable regulations. While our competition may follow the same regulations, we go beyond these regulations by taking additional steps to ensure not only compliance, but total confidentiality.
Credit card fraud is a problem. To combat this issue, Visa, Mastercard, American Express and other credit card companies initiated the PCI/DSS standard for storing sensitive information. ID follows this standard by storing every document as if it were a credit card number. Further, we implement several layers of encryption, real time reporting of access to sensitive files, Cisco ™ intrusion detection and frequent human audits of all server log files. In short, we monitor our network closely to ensure protection of your confidential information.
IDSafe™ is our proprietary system for secure document management. Our software is currently in its alpha stage and due to debut by the end of Novembe, 2009. The goal of IDSafe is to reassure you of our impeccable security standards.
