The HIPAA privacy rule requires covered entities to audit all access to PHI. Audit records have to state who accessed the data, what application they accessed, as well as additional data in order to help with investigating data breaches.
In order to ensure that your organization is not accidently violating HIPAA violations, or open to manual misconfigurations, it is important that you have clear and repeatable change management process. By automating policies, you can ensure that new policies introduced on your network do not violate HIPAA or other regulatory requirements. By ensuring centralized management of your entire hybrid network, automation ensures that your entire network can maintain a state of continuous compliance. Automation also reduces the amount of resources required to maintain HIPAA compliance.
Network security automation, such as that provided by AlgoSec FireFlow and AppChange, can prevent rules that violate HIPAA requirements from being introduced to your network.