The Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act was introduced in 1996 to protect and safeguard health information. This Act did revolutionize how organizations handled health information at different stages of its lifecycle. However, like many other sectors, health care organizations have started to adopt the public cloud to host their applications. While the majority of the cloud providers are HIPAA compliant, that does not mean that the application hosted on their platform is compliant with HIPAA regulations. …
