HIPAA Certified Does Not Mean You Are Compliant. Being HIPAA certified means that you have successfully undergone a course designed to train and teach you the information you need to enable your business or organization to become HIPAA compliant. It does not mean that you are compliant, but that you have been taught the terms…
HIPAA 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…
HIPAA 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…
The 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…
HIPAA Compliance does need to be taken seriously and followed. Is it really a crime to have wandering eyes? In short, yes. Well, at least when it comes to the personal health information of other people. HIPAA has, at least to some degree, been scoffed at over the last several years. It seemed to be…
