HIPAA Compliance with Continuous Control Assurance
What HIPAA requires
HIPAA sets national standards for protecting the confidentiality, integrity and availability of health information, and applies to covered entities and their business associates.
The HIPAA Security Rule requires administrative, physical and technical safeguards for electronic protected health information (ePHI), and the Breach Notification Rule sets what must happen when unsecured protected health information is breached.
How DigitalXForce covers HIPAA
DigitalXForce tests the HIPAA Security Rule safeguards it can read from connected systems, and assesses business associates through its third-party risk module.
Testing each control continuously against live evidence is Continuous Control Assurance (CCA), which uses evidence, monitoring and validation to determine whether controls continue to operate as expected. Each control is mapped once in the AI-Powered Risk Management and Automated GRC module and tested with C-Assess for compliance and X-Assess for security.
What is tested from live data and what still needs a person
Which controls DigitalXForce tests directly from live tool data depends on the tools you connect through X-Connect and E-Connect. Controls that rest on a document, such as a signed policy, are reviewed by AI JedAI against the requirement and kept with their evidence. The demo shows that split for your own stack.
The evidence the auditor receives
For each control, the auditor receives the test result, the evidence it read, the time it was read and the history of earlier results. A-Assess prepares the evidence and findings in the form auditors review.
Other frameworks the same controls report to
A HIPAA safeguard such as access control or audit logging often also answers requirements in HITRUST, NIST CSF 2.0, ISO/IEC 27001 and SOC 2. DigitalXForce maps such a control once, so one test result reports to each framework it belongs to. The article on the common control framework explains the method.
Where to go next
The healthcare page shows how hospitals and health systems use DigitalXForce for HIPAA and HITRUST. Request a demo to see your own HIPAA controls tested.
DigitalXForce is not a certification, assessment or authorization body for HIPAA. It tests and documents the controls the framework requires.
