HIPAA Compliance

E-Backup Systems does comply with the Final Security Rule.

E-Backup Systems will compress and encrypt data before sending it to the secure server. E-Backup Systems offers secure data backup software and data backup systems for online data backup.

The Encryption Key generated by E-Backup Systems is known only to the customer, and is never transmitted to the Server nor is it passed on to E-Backup Systems. Data are stored on the E-Backup Systems Server in compressed and encrypted archives that are not accessible by the E-Backup Systems staff.

E-Backup Systems is an excellent choice to help companies comply with the Final Security Rule. E-Backup systems also complies with the Privacy section, even though E-Backup Systems and other like providers are not "Covered Entities" as defined by the current rules, and thus are not required to comply with it.

In addition, E-Backup Systems can help customers comply with other provisions of the rules as part of a larger data protection and disaster recovery plan.

HIPAA background

In 1996, a bill known as the Kennedy-Kassebaum Bill was passed by the U.S. Congress and signed into law by President Bill Clinton. The new law was known as the Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act of 1996, or more commonly, HIPAA . It had started as a measure to ensure that workers could keep their health insurance when they changed jobs. By the time of its passage, it had become much more complex and far-ranging, affecting the vast majority of all health-care entities in the United States. Click here to view a PDF of more HIPAA policy information.