Description

The U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) issued the HIPAA Privacy Rule to implement the requirement of the Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act of 1996 (HIPAA), which is a set of national standards for the protection of certain health information.

The HIPAA Privacy Rule addresses the use and disclosure of individuals’ health information called “Protected Health Information (PHI)”. These types of organizations are called “covered entities”. Every health care provider, regardless of size, who electronically transmits health information in connection with certain transactions, is a covered entity. These transactions include claims, benefit eligibility inquiries, referral authorization requests, or other transactions for which HHS has established requirements under the HIPAA Transactions Rule.

The HIPAA Security Rule requires covered entities to maintain reasonable and appropriate administrative, technical, and physical safeguards for protecting e-PHI. Since covered entities range from the smallest provider to the largest, the Security Rule is flexible and scalable to allow a covered entity to decide which security measures to use.

Our tailored HIPAA Readiness Package solution helps organizations to identify the optimal balance of security requirements based on:
•Its size, complexity, and capabilities
•Its technical, hardware, and software infrastructure
•The costs of security measures
•The likelihood and possible impact of potential risks to e-PHI

Our HIPAA Readiness Package provides covered entities security policies to continue protecting e-PHI in their ever changing environment. It also includes a risk analysis tool to help:

•Evaluate the likelihood and impact of potential risks to e-PHI;
•Implement appropriate security measures to address the risks identified in the risk analysis;
•Document the chosen security measures and, where required, the rationale for adopting those measures;
•Maintain continuous, reasonable, and appropriate security protections;
•Avoid violating HIPAA Act.

The HIPAA Readiness Package covers Administrative Safeguards (Security Management Process, Security Personnel, Information Access Management), Physical Safeguards (Facility Access and Workstation/Device Security) and Technical Safeguards (Access Controls, Audit Controls, Integrity Controls, Transmission Security, Business Associate Contracts).

Our solution ensures security coverage over the 18 most important PHI: Name, Address, Key Dates, Telephone Number, Fax Number, Email Address, SSN, Medicare Record Number, Health Plan Beneficiary Number, Account Number, Certificate/License Number, Vehicle Identifiers/Serial Numbers/License Plate Numbers, Device Identifiers or Serial Numbers, Web URLs, IP address, Biometric Identifiers, Full-Face Photos, and Any other unique identifying numbers, characteristics, or codes.

If you need additional guidance, your purchase comes with 3 hours of complimentary support.

We’re a dedicated partner in your endeavor to obtain HIPAA regulations compliance in the quickest time possible without compromise to quality or security.

Whether you’re just getting started or have an existing security program, our templates will provide a baseline of tuned controls, policies, procedures and standards that fully comply to the HIPAA Security Rule.

We are happy to discuss our products. Please feel free to contact us with your questions.