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by Jaylin Auer I Published 3 years ago Updated 2 years ago
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Salesforce maintains a comprehensive set of compliance certifications and attestations to validate our #1 value of Trust. HIPAA The HIPAA Privacy Rule provides federal protections for personal health information held by covered entities and gives patients an array of rights with respect to that information.

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How does Salesforce comply with HIPAA?

Salesforce maintains a comprehensive set of compliance certifications and attestations to validate our #1 value of Trust. The HIPAA Privacy Rule provides federal protections for personal health information held by covered entities and gives patients an array of rights with respect to that information.

What is security health check in Salesforce?

Security Health Check As an admin, you can use Health Check to identify and fix potential vulnerabilities in your security settings, all from a single page. A summary score shows how your org measures against a security baseline, like the Salesforce Baseline Standard.

How do I check the status of my Salesforce certifications?

You are required to maintain Salesforce certifications by successfully completing incremental exams focused on new product functionality. Follow the steps below to check the status of your certifications. 1. Visit the Trailhead Verification page.

How do I set the baseline for health check in Salesforce?

From Setup, enter Health Check in the Quick Find box, then select Health Check. In the baseline dropdown (1), choose the Salesforce Baseline Standard or a custom baseline. The baseline consists of recommended values for High-Risk, Medium-Risk, Low-Risk, and Informational Security Settings (2).

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Is Salesforce HIPAA compliant?

Salesforce can be HIPAA compliant, but you must talk to your account representative to sign a Business Associate Agreement (BAA). You can connect Salesforce to “Shield” premium services for additional monitoring, encryption, and auditing.

Is Salesforce GDPR compliant?

Is Salesforce GDPR Compliant? Short Answer – Absolutely. As a designated processor of customer data, Salesforce provides comprehensive controls to handle data requests and securely manage data for all these business processes throughout the customer lifecycle.

Does my CRM need to be HIPAA compliant?

A CRM software platform is HIPAA-compliant if it ensures that all patient data remains confidential, backed up and securely stored. You must only transmit encrypted data and have complete control over the data in your CRM – that means no unauthorized intake, access, creation, storage or sharing of data.

What is Salesforce healthcare?

Salesforce Health Cloud is a health IT CRM system that incorporates doctor-patient relationship and record management services.

How can we implement GDPR in Salesforce?

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How is Salesforce data protected?

Salesforce.com utilizes some of the most advanced technology for Internet security available today. When you access our site using a supported web browser, Secure Socket Layer (SSL) technology protects your information using both server authentication and data encryption.

What is HIPAA CRM?

And that's where a HIPAA-compliant medical CRM is important. Using a modern, user-intuitive CRM solution — one that aligns with HIPAA regulations — medical professionals can provide customers with a streamlined and efficient service to improve the patient experience.

Why is HubSpot not HIPAA-compliant?

The Subscription Service is not designed to comply with industry-specific regulations such as the Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act (HIPAA) or the Federal Information Security Management Act (FISMA), so you may not use the Subscription Service where your communications would be subject to such laws.”

Is HubSpot HIPAA-compliant?

HubSpot states that it isn't a HIPAA-compliant service, so covered entities shouldn't use it for PHI. On HubSpot's terms of service page, the company states that its services don't comply with industry-specific regulations like HIPAA.

Do we have health Cloud in Salesforce?

If you're familiar with other Salesforce platforms, you'll find Health Cloud reasonably simple to use and yes, the Salesforce platform itself can be made HIPAA compliant. Besides all the great CRM features, industry-specific data models and features are also available for the Health Cloud users.

Do hospitals use Salesforce?

Several large healthcare organizations rely on Salesforce's Health Cloud for provider services, including Cancer Treatment Centers of America, which serves cancer patients at treatment centers and hospitals throughout the U.S., and Piedmont Healthcare, which has 11 hospitals and serves in over 250 locations, according ...

How do I run a health check in Salesforce?

From Setup, enter Health Check in the Quick Find box, then select Health Check. In the baseline dropdown (1), choose the Salesforce Baseline Standard or a custom baseline. The baseline consists of recommended values for High-Risk, Medium-Risk, Low-Risk, and Informational Security Settings (2).

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Why is a Health Check Important?

As a Salesforce Admin, developer, and consultant (for over a decade now), I know how difficult it can be to maintain a healthy, mission critical org.

Documenting Your Health Check

Before we dive into our Health Check, just a brief note on documentation – one could argue that the state of your org Documentation could (and should) be part of this exercise.

Conducting the Health Check

It is important to follow a clear process when conducting your Salesforce Health Check, which I have divided into four steps.

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I’ve completed the exercise above for more orgs than I can count, either as I came into new orgs as a consultant, or as I tried to improve existing ones as an Admin. This led me to dream up a tool to “quickly understand how an org is built and how it’s being used.” Fast forward five years, and oAtlas was born.

Summary

I hope this guide to conducting a Salesforce Health Check has helped you to make your Salesforce org healthier! A Salesforce system is a big investment, and ensuring its health is one of the best ways to protect it.

How many baselines can you upload to Salesforce?

You can upload up to five custom baselines to use instead of the Salesforce Baseline Standard. From Setup, enter Health Check in the Quick Find box, then select Health Check. In the baseline dropdown (1), choose the Salesforce Baseline Standard or a custom baseline.

What is a baseline health check?

The baseline consists of recommended values for High-Risk, Medium-Risk, Low-Risk, and Informational Security Settings (2). If you change settings to be less restrictive than what’s in the baseline, your health check score (3) and grade (4) decreases.

Ever Wish You Had a Dashboard to Assess Your Security Settings?

We have good news — you do! It’s called Health Check, and it's available in Setup. As an admin, you can use Health Check to improve your org’s overall security and even improve your score with one click. You can even run it before you’re done with this module! Don’t worry, we’ll wait here until you're done.

Identify and Fix Security Risks in Your Org

Now that you're aware of Health Check's capabilities, let's try it out.

Custom Baselines

Health Check is set up to automatically measure your org's security against the Salesforce baseline (called Stand Values in the tool), but you can also import your own baseline for a more customized view of security. These are called Custom Baselines in the tool and you can add them by simply importing an XML file.

View Security Across Multiple Orgs with Security Center and Optimizer

If you run a Salesforce environment with multiple orgs, you can use the power of Health Check across all of your orgs with Salesforce's Security Center. This tool is an add-on and not available out of the box like Health Check, but has a deeper level of capabilities that span multiple orgs.

Hands-on Challenge

You’ll be completing this challenge in your own hands-on org. Click Launch to get started, or click the name of your org to choose a different one.

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