Nowadays we are fully exposed to many viruses and bacteria. The main example is the coronavirus pandemic that the entire world continues to face. We have realized how important the medical sector is to our lives. Medical centers are super important, now that these days while we live among the COVID-19, but the most important thing is the medical files. These documents contain the most sensitive type of data that always needs to be protected when destroyed. One of the primary objectives of The Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act, commonly known as HIPAA, is to guarantee the security and privacy of the health information.

HIPAA is one of the national standards which protects medical records and personal health information about the patients. This set of standards are followed to preserve the patients’ information secure on any device such as computers, servers, tablets, phones, or any other device where the information is stored. HIPAA standards are to be met by any company when hospitals are replacing their old IT equipment because the data must be destroyed or wiped.

Why it is important to wipe PHI (Protected Health Information)?

This is important because you are wiping personal data that ending with the wrong hands would be a disaster. In addition to this, failing to wipe PHI from a device involves paying up to 1.5 million dollars per incident, to the government.

GreenTek Solutions provides data erasure and data destruction following all HIPAA guidelines. Your patient information is safe with us and will not fall into the wrong hands. If your company is looking to have any data destroyed, you can

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