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Defense Information Technology Security Certification and Accreditation Process (DITSCAP) to address HIPAA compliance

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Pacific Medical Centers in Seattle used the Department of Defense's standard for protecting and securing information systems - the Defense Information Technology Security Certification and Accreditation Process (DITSCAP) - to address HIPAA compliance. Don Lewis, CIO at Pacific Medical Centers, said that the DITSCAP regulations were more specific than the HIPAA requirements. "We found that if we went through the DITSCAP process, which we were required to do because of our work with the federal government, we ended up with specific recommendations and things that had to be done. By following DITSCAP, we answered most, if not all, of the HIPAA requirements, which we considered to be very vague," Lewis said. "DITSCAP gave us more direction than HIPAA."

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