This paper is one of a series outlining the challenges healthcare providers face in information technology (IT), and the best practices for meeting those challenges. This paper focuses on the specific topic of regulatory compliance.

Healthcare providers face a constantly changing regulatory landscape. Faced with numerous mandates to satisfy, they also grapple with an ever-increasing body of electronic data that they must protect and secure. While acknowledging the challenges implicit in implementing IT security, healthcare providers are also recognizing that automating their compliance efforts can bring benefits as well as shield their institutions from the potentially disastrous cons...