Ingenuity® Systems, a leading provider of biomedical information and analysis solutions, today announced that it has passed the Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act (HIPAA) audit, confirming that Ingenuity's data center and Ingenuity Variant Analysis are in compliance with relevant Federal Regulations.
HIPAA Certification mandates strong security controls for managing patient information. By meeting the HIPAA compliance guidelines and controls, Ingenuity is able to securely serve clients such as clinical researchers, molecular pathologists and medical geneticists with strict controls on patient security, while providing intuitive web-based applications for quickly analyzing and accurately interpreting the biological meaning and clinical relevance of variant level information from NGS experiments.
"Privacy and data security is of paramount importance to patients and a requirement for us to effectively serve our customers and partners," said David Lewis , Privacy Officer of Ingenuity Systems. "Our HIPAA compliance ensures that all data stored and transferred between Ingenuity and customers is protected and that we are fully prepared to handle patient data in our analysis solutions."