Mandatory Compliance Date: April 14, 2003
How Remote Data Backups helps you comply:

• Secure Transmission - Guardian Angel uses military-level 448 bit encryption to transmit and store your data using a personalized encryption key that you choose.
• Physical Access - Using Remote Data Backups ensures secure, offsite data storage. Our data centers feature the tightest physical and technical safeguards to prevent unauthorized access to our Level3 data center. This is a hardened facilities with limited administrative access, finger scanners for physical access and motion detectors and camera tracking.
• Logical Access - Logical access to backed up data is controlled with a secure user interface.
• Data Retention - Healthcare providers must retain health records for a minimum of six years. For an annual fee, The Kotter Group can securely archive and maintain your critical data on CDs, or we can outline a plan for you to do it on your own.

Mandatory Compliance Date: April 21, 2005.
How Remote Data Backups helps you comply:

• HIPAA Security Rules require providers to have a written contingency plan for responding to system emergencies. A data backup plan is required as part of the contingency plan, which Remote Data Backups can provide you at no additional charge. The plan will ensure your data is securely and reliably backed up on a routine basis and that your backed up data will be readily available in the event you have a system failure or other form of data loss.
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  Using Guardian Angel helps reduce your Security "Media Control" risks by eliminating insecure methods of data handling that result from traditional disk or tape backup techniques.
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  Files are securely transmitted to The Kotter Group's data centers using encryption and authentication, access controls, auditing mechanisms, and event reporting as required by HIPAA's Security Policy.

Please note: Under the current rules, no software is truly "HIPAA compliant," as there are no regulations that specifically address backup and privacy software..