Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act (HIPAA)

Ansible Role for HIPAA

Profile Description:
The HIPAA Security Rule sets national standards in the U.S. to protect individuals’ electronic health information that is created, received, used, or kept by certain organizations. It requires the implementation of proper administrative, physical, and technical measures to ensure the confidentiality, integrity, and security of this information.
This profile configures Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7 to comply with the HIPAA Security Rule for protecting electronic health information. Using this profile does not guarantee compliance with the HIPAA Security Rule.

The tasks in this role are created using OpenSCAP. For more details on generating Ansible playbooks, you can visit the OpenSCAP project at https://github.com/OpenSCAP/openscap.

If you want to submit a fix or improvement for an Ansible task that is failing or not included in this role, check the ComplianceAsCode project at https://github.com/ComplianceAsCode/content.

Requirements

• Ansible version 2.9 or higher

Role Variables

To personalize the role, take a look at the list of variables.

Dependencies

N/A

Example Role Usage

Run ansible-galaxy install RedHatOfficial.rhel7_hipaa to download and install the role. Then you can use the following playbook snippet to run the Ansible role:

- hosts: all
  roles:
     - { role: RedHatOfficial.rhel7_hipaa }

After that, check the playbook by running the following on your local machine:

ansible-playbook -i "localhost," -c local --check playbook.yml

To actually deploy it (note that this may change settings on your local machine!):

ansible-playbook -i "localhost," -c local playbook.yml

License

BSD-3-Clause

Author Information

This Ansible role was created based on security policies developed by the ComplianceAsCode project. For an updated list of authors and contributors, please visit https://github.com/complianceascode/content/blob/master/Contributors.md.