HIPAA Resources
HIPAA Associates is pleased to offer our patrons compliance resources which you may find helpful in your practice.
Please follow the links below for valuable HIPAA resources of use to Covered Entities and Business Associates.
HIPAA and COVID
- Guidance from the OCR
- Telehealth Remote Communications
- First Responders, PHI & COVID
- Civil Rights Laws and HIPAA
- Uses and Disclosure of PHI by Business Associates
- Community-Based Testing Sites
- Media Access to Protected Health Information
- Contacting Patient about Blood & Plasma Donations
- Use of Online or Web-Based Scheduling Applications for Scheduling Vaccination Appointments
- Health Information Exchanges
- Conclusion
Breaches of Protected Health Information
- Definition of Breach
- Paper Breaches
- Electronic Breaches
- Verbal Breaches
- Exceptions to Definition of Breach
- Unsecured PHI
- Encryptions of PHI
- Destruction of PHI
- Procedures for Making a HIPAA Complaint
- Privacy Officer
- No Retaliation for Filing a Privacy Complaint
- Breach Notification Requirements
- Notification of Individuals
- Public Notice
- Notification Process
- Media Notice
- Notice to the Secretary
- Notification by a Business Associate
- Administrative Requirements
- Direction from HHS on Penalties
- Social Media
The Right to Access PHI
- Patient Rights
- Designated Record Sets
- Excluded Information
- Important Exclusions
- Personal Representatives
- Requesting Access
- Verification
- Unreasonable Measures
- Providing Access
- Summary of PHI
- Delivering Records
- Timeliness of Access
- Permissible Records
- Denial of Access
- Notification of Denial
- Review of the Denial
- State Laws
- Information Blocking
- Exceptions to Information Blocking
Review our HIPAA Compliance Checklist to get started with your HIPAA Compliance Plan
- The Seven Steps
- Implementing written policies
- Designating a compliance officer
- Conducting effective training
- Develop effective lines of communication
- Conduct internal monitoring and auditing
- Responding to detected offenses
- Enforcing standards of conduct
- Responding promptly to detected offenses
- Understanding HIPAA Compliance
HIPAA ABCs
The HIPAA Blog
Using Cybersecurity to Protect PHI
HIPAA Technical Safeguards protect PHI and are a major part of any HIPAA Security program. Using cybersecurity to protect EPHI is a key feature of HIPAA. Technical safeguards are key protections that help to maintain the safety of EPHI as the internet changes.
The Right to Access Protected Health Information
One of the key elements of HIPAA has been to provide individuals with a right to access PHI such that they may be in more control of decisions regarding their health and well-being. The Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act of 1996 (HIPAA), was created to protect the privacy [...]
Texting Protected Health Information Safely
The Office for Civil Rights or OCR with HIPAA oversight has not produced the long-awaited guidance on texting protected health information. Finally, at a Health Information Management Conference in March the OCR director said healthcare providers could text message their patients with PHI.
