H&H Innovative Technologies http://hh-it.net Fri, 11 Dec 2009 19:02:29 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.8.6 en hourly 1 HIPAA Security Rule requirements http://hh-it.net/news/hipaa-security-rule-requirements http://hh-it.net/news/hipaa-security-rule-requirements#comments Wed, 09 Dec 2009 15:43:32 +0000 admin http://hh-it.net/?p=210 HIPAA Security Rule requirements are being enforced with more regularity and the fines have been raised to a whole new level.   Non-Compliance can translate into hefty fees, litigation, and required 3rd party consulting.  Many health care organizations rely on manual processes that are often times disjointed ,incomplete and fail to meet regulatory requirements.

Implementation and utilization of proper administrative, technical, and physical safeguards and the demonstration of these is key to establishing and maintaining compliancy.    Many healthcare providers and their business associates continue to manually manage multiple, independent processes, including the revision, distribution and acknowledgment of policies and procedures.  The HiTech act mandates manually  remediating  gaps in compliancy, assessing risks related to breaches and required notifications, as well as preparing for the new proactive audits.   Staff can spend enormous effort to address all the requirements,  remediate gaps, and produce the documentation necessary to adherence.  Automation of these tasks, professional assistance, and  management tools  can save large amounts of time and resources while  avoiding  the  increased risk of privacy breaches, sanctions and fines.

Our services and  tools can help unify resources and regulatory requirements into a single management and reporting tool and help guide your organization through the process of achieving  and maintaining  compliancy.

  • Baseline your organizations administrative, technical, and physical safeguards to include:
    Detailed Risk and Gap analysis.
  • Develop a roadmap and guide to compliancy
  • Create customized documentation required
  • Assist in technical deployments
  • Centralized interface for tracking progress and a documentation repository
  • Automate compliance and IT risk assessment tasks to know where you are in your state of compliancy to ensure nothing falls through the cracks.
  • Streamline the audit process by automating survey workflows and data collection
  • Manage your assessment of compliance with the new and updated regulations and easily include your employees as well as your business associates in the process.
  • Revise and administer your HIPAA and HiTECH policies and procedures, and link them to the specific requirements in the new and updated regulations.
  • Prioritize remediation efforts to address pressing compliance deficiencies
  • Monitor your environment to ensure continuous compliance
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