The Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act of 1996 (HIPAA), was the result of efforts by the Clinton Administration and congressional healthcare reform proponents to reform healthcare. The goals and objectives of this legislation are to streamline industry inefficiencies, reduce paperwork, make it easier to detect and prosecute fraud and abuse and enable workers of all professions to change jobs, even if they (or family members) had preexisting medical conditions.

While IBackup Professional software can help companies meet certain requirements of HIPAA like contingency plans for data backups, IBackup Professional does not offer any specific advice regarding HIPAA or other regulations.  It is up to the customer to evaluate their data practices and evaluate their use of IBackup Professional's services to determine if they meet HIPAA or other state and federal laws.

The data transferred using IBackup Professional software is compressed and encrypted before sending it to the IBackup Professional data centers. IBackup Professional software offers secure data backups. The data center architecture is also highly secure.  For additional information on security, please see http://www.ibackup.com/professional/ibpr_security.htm.

The encryption is done based on a user defined key, so the data stored on IBackup Professional servers cannot be decrypted by anybody other than the user. The data is stored in compressed and encrypted form in the servers and IBackup Professional personal have no access to decrypted user data.

At the time of this writing there is no "HIPAA Compliance" certification for backup software or service, and it is important to note that under the current rules, no software is truly "HIPAA compliant," because there are no regulations that specifically address backup and privacy software.