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HIPAA Compliance Checklist

Tuesday, January 11th, 2022

This HIPAA compliance checklist was designed to help organizations understand their obligations under the law. The checklist items are not a complete list, just a starting point for your compliance program. HIPAA requires a yearly risk analysis to identify new vulnerabilities. Any business process change or new technology usage introduces new risk into an organization’s security program, so it’s important to review the standards regularly.

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HIPAA Law and HITECH/Omnibus Conformance – Small Medical Practice

Monday, August 14th, 2017

As the owner of a small to medium-sized medical business (a 1-19 physician practice, say, with 5-50 employees) you have many concerns – how to hire and retain competent staff, how to deal with your vendors such as office payroll, billing and collection services, and, above all, how to serve your patients’ needs in the most economical and expeditious way.  I.e., by speeding up scheduling, quickly accessing medical records, coordinating treatment with other doctors, etc. Time spent managing your information and communications infrastructure for HIPAA or HITECH compliance may not seem to be the most critical aspect of your work.

HIPAA / HITECH

However, the use of ICT – information and communications technologies –  in the healthcare industry has become increasingly pervasive and has special relevance for every medical practitioner, given the provisions of the Health Information Technology for Economic and Clinical Health (HITECH) Act, which adds more substance to the original Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act (HIPAA)  privacy and security rules.  HITECH also incentivizes medical practitioners to step up their use of electronic health records (EHR) to “exchange electronic health information with, and integrate such information from, other sources.”

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What exactly does HIPAA say about Email Security?

Friday, August 30th, 2013

Performing daily business transactions through electronic technologies is accepted, reliable, and necessary across the nation’s healthcare sectors. Therefore, electronic communications and email have become a standard in the healthcare industry as a way to conduct business activities that commonly include:

  • Interacting with web-savvy patients;
  • Real time authorizations for medical services;
  • Transcribing, accessing and storing health records;
  • Appointment scheduling;
  • Referring patients; and
  • Submitting claims to health plan payers for payment of the services provided.

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HIPAA 2010: HITECH Impact on Email and Web Outsourcing

Wednesday, January 20th, 2010

Surprise!  HIPAA has changed, gotten bigger, and grown teeth.

The American Recovery and Reinvestment Act (ARRA, or The Obama Stimulus Bill), signed into law in February 2009, includes new, more comprehensive provisions for HIPAA. These provisions are in a section of the bill known as the Health Information Technology for Economic and Clinical Health Act (HITECH).

For organizations that are already required to abide by HIPAA (i.e. the “Covered Entities” of HIPAA), HITECH adds the following requirements:

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