title: Beef up your information security with the new HIPAA-mandated standards.
abstract: Beef up information security using HIPAA standards. This month, the federal Department of Health and Human Services will release the final standards for information security mandated by the 1996 Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act (HIPAA). To comply with HIPAA, you must perform an applications and data criticality analysis and develop a data backup plan, a disaster recovery plan, and an emergency mode operation plan.
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