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