HIPAA SOLUTIONS
Networks4you HIPAA Solutions Team offers the expertise
of senior health information and technology professionals who are adept
at balancing strategic planning needs with effective resolution of healthcare
information security issues. We will ensure that your staff can continue
to focus on organizational priorities without the burden of managing a
complex and unfamiliar new implementation process. Most services are fixed-fee
priced, enabling clients to plan their information systems costs.
Networks4you HIPAA Security and Privacy Package
Includes:
· Customized policy, procedure and forms manual
· Compliance plan review for your office
· On-site physical infrastructure and data privacy/security survey
· Evaluation of electronic transmission and data storage privacy
and security measures.
· Email support
The one-stop, headache free HIPAA solution. Just contact
us for a free, onsite consultation of either your existing HIPAA compliance
efforts or your start-up needs.
HIPAA Requirements in brief:
The administrative simplification requirements of the Health Insurance
Portability and Accountability Act consist of four parts:
 Uniformity
in electronic transmissions and code sets
Unique
identifiers
Patient
privacy
Records
security (both stored and transmitted)
HIPAA Timeline:
As of April 14,
2003 HIPAA requires that you comply with the privacy rule and maintain
reasonable and appropriate administrative, technical, and physical safeguards.
As of April 16,
2003 you need to start testing your software and computer systems to
ensure that they are capable of HIPAA compliance.
As of October 16,
2003 you must be ready to conduct transactions electronically in the
standard HIPAA format.
As of April 21,
2005 all covered entities must comply with the security rules.
Enforcement Provisions:
The Center for Medicare Services is responsible for implementing and
enforcing the security standards, the transactions standards and other
HIPAA administrative simplification provisions, except for the privacy
standards. HHS' Office for Civil Rights is responsible for implementing
and enforcing the privacy rule. Punishments are as follows:
General Penalty
for Failure to Comply:
Each violation:
$100.
Violation of one
standard can result in a maximum penalty of up to $25,000 in a given
year.
Wrongful Disclosure of Individual Health Information:
Basic offense: $50,000,
imprisonment of not more than one year or both.
False Pretenses:
$100,000, imprisonment of not more than 5 years, or both.
Intent to Sell:
$250,000, imprisonment of not more than 10 years, or both.
Take advantage of our FREE HIPAA check-up now!
Networks4you shows you how to address the top ten HIPAA
compliance issues in a systematic and cost-effective way. By concentrating
on these ten steps your company will go along way to addressing your HIPAA
Compliance needs:
1. Choose your team and assign privacy and security responsibilities
2. Establish procedures for handling, storing and processing Protected
Healthcare Information (PHI)
3. Ensure adequate physical security to safeguard Protected Health Information.
4. Ensure adequate technical security to safeguard Protected Health Information.
5. Establish clear rules to safeguard patient privacy.
6. Manage your patients’ ability to view their own Protected Health
Information.
7. Establish a formal complaint procedure.
8. Publish a Patient Privacy Notice and adhere to it.
9. Make sure that the people with whom you do business also protect PHI.
10. Train the workforce.
HIPAA News:
Security Standards (as published in the Federal Register,
February 20, 2003)
Regulation Effective Date: April 21, 2003
Compliance Date: April 21, 2005 for most covered entities
SUMMARY: The purpose of this final rule is to adopt national
standards for safeguards to protect the confidentiality, integrity, and
availability of electronic protected health information. HHS Medicare
programs, State Medicaid agencies, private health plans, health care providers,
and others must assure their consumers (such as patients, insured individuals,
providers, and health plans) that the integrity, confidentiality, and
availability of electronic protected health information they collect,
maintain, use, or transmit is protected. The confidentiality of health
information is threatened not only by the risk of improper access to stored
information, but also by the risk of interception during electronic transmission
of the information. This final rule implements some of the requirements
of the Administrative Simplification subtitle of the Health Insurance
Portability and Accountability Act of 1996 (HIPAA).
For more information, please contact: joseph@mynetworks4you.com
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