HIPAA Compliance Forms are intended to manage patient information. HIPAA compliance forms are intended to manage the patient information management system and so ensure compliance to HIPAA. The simple way to manage HIPAA is to regard it as a security or patient confidentiality management system and maintain it as such, just like any other management…
DetailsHIPAA Compliance Requirements To be HIPAA compliant essentially means that an entity or office is cooperating with and following the laws set forth by Congress in all three waves of HIPAA legislation. The government has mandated that all “covered entities” must meet HIPAA Compliance specifications. These so-called “covered entities” include practitioners and their offices, health…
DetailsHIPAA Security Rule vs HIPAA Safety Concerns There are stories left and right of inadvertent leaks of medical information violating the HIPAA security rule. Sometimes there is a computer glitch allowing unauthorized people to access information. Sometimes I file is left out and picked up by a curious passerby. Sometimes one simple error can lead…
DetailsHIPAA Compliance Training is Crucial. If you work in any company that either provides a form of health service, traditional or otherwise, or a firm that is a business associate of such a company, then you should receive HIPAA training. A business associate may be a health insurer, a provider of software designed to store…
DetailsThe Importance of Compliance to HIPAA Well, are you HIPAA compliant? If not you might have some problems shortly because you should have been compliant by now with a comprehensive HIPAA policy written up and all the procedures and processes in place that are needed to comply. You should have regular review meetings set up…
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