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September 14, 2020 By Michele Kersey < 1 min read

IBM Cloud continues to expand offerings available as HIPAA-ready.

IBM Cloud is now ready for HIPAA-ready workloads on the following VPC Gen 2 offerings:

  • IBM Cloud Virtual Private Cloud
  • IBM Cloud Virtual Server for VPC
  • IBM Cloud Block Storage for Virtual Private Cloud
  • IBM Cloud Kubernetes Service
  • Red Hat OpenShift on IBM Cloud on VPC

The U.S. Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act of 1996 (HIPAA) establishes standards for protecting and handling patient information.  A “HIPAA-ready” IBM offering is an offering capable of meeting HIPAA standards and ready for IBM and the client to enter into a business associate agreement (BAA), including terms for protecting and handling patient information in a manner meeting HIPAA standards as a shared responsibility.   

IBM is responsible for the readiness and delivery of each IBM Cloud offering designated as HIPAA-ready. Processes, features, or add-ons created on or above the IBM Cloud standard offering by the client or other third party that is not an IBM vendor are outside the scope of IBM’s responsibility. 

Learn more

A full list of HIPAA-ready IBM public cloud services can be found on the IBM Cloud Industry compliance page, HIPAA section.

Michele Kersey
IBM Cloud Compliance Senior Product Manager

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