I want to start using LibreOffice but I don’t know if it is compliant with HIPAA.
Please explain more what is “hipaa compliance”?
I work in the healthcare field and our office is maiking the switch from XP and office 2003 as they are reaching their end of life. We have some users that do not use word or excel very much so it seems pointless to pay for the 2013 suite so we were going to go with libreoffice for the few that are not power users and I was wondering the same thing. I am trying to get in touch with the company who performs our high tech audits for a definitive answer and I will post it here when I hear back
This is not a definitive answer, but rather my limited understanding, based on a quick read of the Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act (HIPAA). It appears to require physical, network, and process security measures for securing patient data. This is more of a host-provider and administration issue, than an application-based one. LO contains strong encryption that can be used, but this alone seems unlikely to satisfy HIPAA, which is also concerned with physical and host-provider access to the encrypted data.
I am not sure this is a question that can be effectively answered on a forum. It would be better to speak with a local IT representative to determine compliance for the specific, intended use-case.