HIPAA Associates is pleased to provide a full range of HIPAA Compliance services to help you achieve full HIPAA Compliance. We will help you meet the requirements of the HIPAA Rules. We are experts in the Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act and have the credentials to prove it.
- If you handle protected health information (PHI) you must have a Compliance Plan. This should consist of HIPAA policies and procedures.
- Every health care organization must address HIPAA Compliance Training. All staff must receive training based on the position in their organization.
- Perform a Security Risk Analysis.
- Experienced HIPAA Compliance Consulting for your Compliance Plan.
- Easy to understand HIPAA online training or personalized virtual training for your group.
- A Security Risk Analysis or a full audit of your Compliance Plan
Our HIPAA training has been named the “Best HIPAA Team Training” program available for two years in a row.
Our consulting staff have years of experience and have been certified by HCCA and AHIMA. These are the nationally best recognized compliance organizations.
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Certified by two of the best recognized associations in healthcare compliance.
Our professionals are certified by the Health Care Compliance Association and the American Health Information Management Association. The staff of HIPAA Associates has extensive HIPAA experience on the HIPAA requirements from their work in the healthcare industry. They have the required legal experience to know the intricacies of compliance. They have the practical experience to understand how it affects patients and healthcare professionals.
We are the HIPAA experts, healthcare professionals seek for their compliance plans, training and breach reporting. HIPAA Associates can simplify your work with our HIPAA consulting services. We will help jump start your compliance program.
Pioneers in the Field of HIPAA
They helped create the first HIPAA program at a large multi-hospital institution. Since then have helped manage programs for many physician organizations. Today they provide services to hospitals, clinics, providers, and public health departments.
They provide accessible HIPAA training and consulting services to all who must comply with the HIPAA Privacy Rule.
Training from the Best
Our training has been successfully used in many settings and is easy to follow and understand. We have created our courses to benefit all staff in your organization. Our programs cover all personnel in your organization based on their role in the entity.
Our HIPAA training videos are affordable and come with personalized support. We make ourselves individually available to all organizations or individuals who elect to use our services.
Our mission is to make HIPAA training and compliance painless and easy.
What is HIPAA?
HIPAA or the The Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act was enacted in 1996 to improve the efficiency of the healthcare system, and includes administrative simplification provisions. It is meant to protect individually identifiable health information.
HIPAA is comprised of several rules.
- The first is the Privacy Rule.
It sets standards for the protection of PHI by the three types of covered entities who conduct standard healthcare transactions (or bill) electronically. These are health care providers, health plans and health care clearinghouses.
- HHS next published a final security rule.
This rule sets national standards for protecting the confidentiality, integrity and availability of electronic protected health information or EPHI. The enforcement rule provides standards for the enforcement of all the administrative simplification rules. This includes penalties that may be applied to covered entities for non-compliance with HIPAA.
- Omnibus HIPAA Rule
HHS enacted a final Omnibus rule that implements a number of provisions of the health information technology for economic and clinical Health Act or HITECH to the HIPAA privacy and security protections for PHI. The breach notification rule requires covered entities and their business associates to provide notification following a breach of an individual’s unsecured PHI.
Safeguards:
The HIPAA Rule requires appropriate safeguards to protect the privacy of protected health information (PHI) and sets limits and conditions on the uses and disclosures of PHI that may be made of such information without an individual’s authorization.
Rights to PHI:
The Rule also gives individuals rights over their protected health information, including rights to examine and obtain a copy of their health records, to direct a covered entity to transmit to a third party an electronic copy of their protected health information in an electronic health record, and to request corrections.
Free HIPAA Training Resources
Get help from the experts in the field. Use our Breach Report Toolkit to get started with our breach report. Call us for additional help.
For additional information and free HIPAA training feel free to visit our HIPAA resources section.
Get started today on your HIPAA Compliance Plan by first reviewing our free compliance checklist.
HIPAA Compliance Defined
Learn more about HIPAA and the rules at our HIPAA Resources page. This is available to all covered entities and business associates, free of charge. We cover all the important topics you need to know.
