Next year marks a decade since the passage of the Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act (HIPAA). What we’ve learned, apart from colorful new terms to express frustration, is that HIPAA compliance is a process, not a destination. Look beyond HIPAA’s required measures—designed to enable better healthcare access and lower costs—and you’ll discover an opportunity to be on the front line as the country transitions to a National Health Information Infrastructure.

How? By implementing a strategy for secure access that addresses current regulations and scales effortlessly to accommodate new ones. Noncompliance—in addition to being a legal headache and a disservice to patients—costs healthcare organizations time and money. A secure access infrastructure provides the highest degree of protection while reducing IT costs, enabling new levels of business agility and improving employee productivity.

Despite the April 20, 2005, deadline for compliance with the final HIPAA rule, only 30 percent of payers and 18 percent of healthcare providers who responded to a Healthcare Information and Management Systems Society survey indicate that they are compliant with these regulations. Where is your organization?

This website offers two types of information —Citrix solutions and general HIPAA information. The path you choose depends on the measures your organization has already implemented, and the steps you need to take in order to meet HIPAA requirements and prepare for the electronic future.

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