| HIPAA has led to sweeping changes to health care | | | | products, disclosure tracking systems, compliance |
| administration and information systems as health care | | | | consulting services, etc. All these products are |
| organizations struggle to achieve cost-effective | | | | designed basically to guide you through the |
| compliance by 2003.All health care entities that | | | | formidable transition of HIPAA compliance and help |
| process health-related data are required to comply | | | | you navigate the complex and tedious regulatory |
| with the U.S. Department of Health and Human | | | | environment created by HIPAA. |
| Services' (HHS) Health Insurance Portability and | | | | The online HIPAA training is a very convenient tool to |
| Accountability Act of 1996 (HIPAA). | | | | learn about HIPAA. Moreover, it is available whenever |
| The U.S. Congress designed the Health Insurance | | | | and wherever you have an internet access. The |
| Portability and Accountability Act (HIPAA) in 1996. | | | | privacy manuals and template policies are the |
| Title I of HIPAA safeguards health insurance | | | | workbooks that will lead you through a careful |
| coverage for workers and their families when they | | | | assessment of your company's Privacy compliance |
| lose or change their jobs. According to title II of | | | | plan. The security manuals and template policies are |
| HIPAA, the Administrative Simplification (AS) | | | | those workbooks that will guide you through a |
| provisions, necessitates the establishment of national | | | | careful assessment of your company's Security |
| standards for electronic health care transactions and | | | | compliance plan. The security products include |
| national identifiers for providers, health insurance | | | | network security scanning and automated online |
| plans, and employers. The AS provisions also address | | | | backup. The network security scanning or the HIPAA |
| the security and privacy of health data. The purpose | | | | e-probe beats hackers to the punch by vigilantly |
| of all these standards is to improve the efficiency | | | | probing your Internet connected systems for |
| and effectiveness of the nation's health care system | | | | vulnerabilities before the hackers can find and exploit |
| by encouraging the extensive use of electronic data | | | | them. The automated online backup or the e-backup |
| transactions in health care. | | | | lets you control the configuration and operation of |
| HIPAA is designed to regulate the way all health care | | | | your entire organization's backup system from a |
| organizations electronically exchange sensitive patient | | | | single location. Monitoring and administration of all |
| data and to protect patients from illegal disclosure of | | | | backup and recovery tasks are controlled from a |
| their medical records (whether paper or electronic). It | | | | single workstation. The disclosure tracking systems |
| means that if personal information is stored on | | | | are those software programs that are designed and |
| computer databases, tapes, disks, or transmitted | | | | developed to address the requirement of covered |
| with the assistance of faxes or the Internet, in | | | | entities (health care providers, payers, and |
| addition to anything written down or talked about, | | | | clearinghouses) to record the required elements for |
| steps must be taken to ensure a patient's privacy. | | | | the patient's right to an accounting of disclosures. |
| Today a number of HIPAA products and services are | | | | The compliance consulting services include onsite |
| being offered both online and offline, such as, online | | | | consulting services and the business associate |
| HIPAA training, privacy manuals and template policies, | | | | certification. |
| security manuals and template policies, security | | | | |