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Hello,

I am working with someone in the healthcare industry to find a wi-fi soltuion. They are interested in Ubiquiti but need to make sure it’s HIPAA compliant. Thanks!

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You may want to read through some of the comments posted here for some information and insight:

As far as securing the wireless signal, the UBNT wireless hardware can handle WPA2 encryption. However, it really depends on what’s being accessed over the wireless signal. The wireless connection itself may be just fine but, if poor practices are used on the laptop/tablet/server/remote connection then they may still not be compliant with HIPAA. If in doubt, use a VPN tunnel from the laptop to server (or wherever the data is) to ensure that the traffic flowing across the wireless connection is encrypted.

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HIPPA is just a guideline outlining the need to protect patient data. There are no technical specifications. Therefore no hardware can truly be HIPAA compliant. It is how you manage the network that will make it HIPAA compliant or not.

Not sure about in the US, but here in Canada we are required to submit to the provincial bodies a Privacy Impact Assessment stating the technologies to be used (before implementation), the techs potential impact on privacy and what we are doing to manage that system to ensure compliance. They then approve (or deny) the document, and keep it on file. They can use it to audit us if they chose too see if we are doing what we said we would do.

Not sure if I am explaining this well enough, But the long and short it is less about the Technology than how you will use the technology and how you will manage it to ensure you maintain patient privacy and deliver effective, safe timely services to patients.