Case Study: State Health System achieves HIPAA compliance on mobile devices with Bitglass

Hospital System Achieves HIPAA Compliance

State Health System, a hospital system of approximately 7,000 employees in the Southeastern United States, needed a mobile security solution to meet HIPAA requirements after its incumbent AT&T Toggle became obsolete. Concerned about the high risk of lost or stolen devices (the Department of Health and Human Services cites 70% of healthcare breaches from such devices) and reluctant to require invasive BYOD software, the compliance team evaluated Bitglass alongside MobileIron and AirWatch and selected Bitglass.

Bitglass deployed a zero‑agent, real‑time inline data protection solution that delivers complete audit trails to BYO devices, configurable and advanced PHI detection, selective wipe of hospital data, device PIN/encryption enforcement, and blocking of rogue cloud email clients—without installing software on users’ phones. The Bitglass solution ranked highest with both users and the compliance team, was easy to deploy, supported the planned Office 365 migration, and enabled the hospital to achieve HIPAA compliance across its mobile estate.