Helping You Achieve
Your Cloud Compliance and IT Goals
The healthcare industry has changed dramatically and continues to change at a rapid pace. New regulations create risks, complexity and costs that you might not be prepared for. ViaWest’s HIPAA Compliant Cloud helps companies who manage electronic Protected Health Information (ePHI) meet both their compliance requirements and IT needs.
- Secure Infrastructure – leveraging the industry’s leading virtualization and security technologies, including Cisco, VMware vCloud™.
- HIPAA Audit-Ready - referenced, assessed and audited to HIMSS-Good Informatics Practices (GIP) specifications and procedures.
- On-Demand Functionality - full range of secure, multi-tenant cloud services and on-demand functionality tailored to your needs.
- Mitigate Risk – secure, regulatory compliant data center environments and multi-layer network redundancy architecture.
Roles and Responsibilities

HIPAA Compliant Cloud Features:
Compliant Network Security
- Redundant firewalls
- Intrusion detection/prevention
- Log collection and change management
- Attack prevention and network forensics
- Vulnerability assessments and penetration testing
- Two factor authentication
- Monitoring and reporting
Full Service Administration
- OS hardening and management
- Patching and updates
- Anti-virus protection
- File integrity monitoring
- Configuration review
- Segmentation and access controls
- Performance reporting and notification
Best-in-Class Infrastructure
- Industry leading VMware technology
- Cisco Powered architecture
- Compliant data center infrastructure (SSAE16 Type II, PCI Sections 9/12)


