What safeguards does PatientsLikeMe have in place to secure data?
We follow the best practices in security as per HIPAA Security Compliance. We use a respected, secure hosting provider which has signed a HIPAA compliance agreement, and which has earned SAS Type II certification. In addition to this secure hosting environment we use state of the art firewalls for our production servers, and our systems have been developed to preclude the most common security vulnerabilities. For secure browsing we use 128-bit SSL encryption using Verisign certificates. Finally, our test and development environments use sanitized versions of our production databases which have removed any personal identification information.
