Are Google Drive and Amazon AWS HIPAA compliant?
Partner Erin Whaley is quoted throughout a Healthcare IT News story about Google Drive and Amazon AWS and whether the cloud platforms are HIPAA compliant. “When a business purchases the Google Suite of apps, the provider can configure Google Drive to meet all of the organization’s security requirements. AWS is similar: it has a business associate agreement to sign, but you have to implement it in a way that meets your security requirements,” Erin said in the story. She also is quoted saying, “It’s up to the IT folks to make sure the tools are configured in that environment” and “Providers should think about how the system can be implemented to minimize risk.”