Re: PostgresSQL and HIPAA compliance

On 06/17/2016 03:03 AM, Alex John wrote:
> Hello, I have a few questions regarding the use of PostgreSQL and HIPAA
> compliance. I work for a company that plans on storing protected health
> information (PHI) on our servers. We have looked at various solutions for doing
> so, and RDS is a prime candidate except for the fact that they have explicitly
> stated that the Postgres engine is *not* HIPAA compliant.
>

Correct but that isn't a Postgres problem, it is an RDS one.

> Users on the IRC channel generally say that the guidelines are more catered
> towards building better firewalls and a sane access policy, but I would like to
> know if there is anything within the implementation of Postgres itself that
> violates said compliance.

No.

>
> If anyone works at a similar company and utilizes postgresql to store PHI,
> please let me know.
>

We do (see sig) for multiple companies and it is fully compliant.

Your issue isn't PostgreSQL.

JD

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