When planning for HIPAA compliance, your organization must incorporate a strategy for information access that is core to your technology and business strategies. The information age is an age of complexity, and an effective access strategy can connect two worlds of challenging complexity--the world of heterogeneous complexity on one end, supplying information, and the constantly changing world of the user at the other end, demanding information. It’s a challenging environment in which to develop an IT framework for regulatory compliance.

Citrix access infrastructure solutions provide the core capabilities you need to address the IT control issues in the HIPAA Security Rule. Compliance experts ReymannGroup, Inc., maintain that a successful access strategy can improve patient care, increase employee productivity and enhance information security while saving money and driving revenues. They point to the Citrix access platform as a key solution for addressing IT controls and security.

Citrix Access Infrastructure Addresses IT Controls & Security
Regulatory compliance mandates accountability and control throughout the enterprise, primarily through process discipline and good business practices. The CIO’s compliance role is to ensure that IT has the necessary controls to ensure the administrative, physical and technical safeguards of information technology in the process of protecting electronic protected health information (ePHI). With Citrix access infrastructure solutions, CIOs can develop an access strategy that enables their organization to cost-effectively establish controls for HIPAA. These Citrix capabilities can be directly linked to regulatory compliance for the HIPAA Security Rule.

Citrix is the global leader in access infrastructure solutions and the most trusted name in secure access for enterprises and individuals. Citrix access infrastructure takes a centralized approach to computing:

• Software applications are installed and managed on central servers rather than on users’ computers.
• Workers connect over a network to centralized applications, and view and work with them in real time as if they were running locally.
• Centralization keeps all application processing and data on the server.
• The solution is secure by design—only the user interface, keystrokes and mouse clicks are transmitted across the network, and this minimal information is encrypted.
• Real-time monitoring, auditing and reporting give IT end-to-end visibility to the entire business.

This centralized approach will help IT staff:

• Reduce the number of locations with patient data stored on systems
• Enable complete control over software configuration and maintenance
• Improve access control and security
• Help lower IT resource requirements and reduce the amount of compliance documentation and reporting

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