There term “HIPAA Encryption Software” is pretty generic and can refer to a lot of different encryption products. The key to selecting the right solution for your organization largely depends on your organizations infrastructure. Deploying system wide solutions can be expensive. Many large institutions are able to leverage volume license discounts. Smaller organizations often find themselves somewhat behind the eight ball with regard to paying for the necessary level of encryption software to maintain HIPAA compliance.
We looked at several competing software solutions. The one common thing we noticed right away was that all of them claim to be 100% HIPAA compliant. Protecting confidential records with any new software solution will require some level of training. This is the one area we found to be lacking with a lot of out of the box healthcare security software solutions. While we will not make a specific HIPAA Encryption software recommendation here we do encourage our readers to compare at least four competing companies and then take a serious look at the many open source solutions. Knowing how each company structures there offerings will help you negotiate the best deal for your situation.