HIPAA, the Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act, is a federal law passed by US Congress in 1996 that requires the establishment of national standards for electronic transactions, privacy and security of healthcare information. This white paper highlights the impact of HIPAA on clinical research activities, how the HIPAA Privacy...
The paper outlines that HIPAA involves two levels of compliance strategies. One level is following the regulations and incorporating the requirements into the business operations. The second level is documenting that one has followed the regulations. As HIPAA governs many of the exchanges and transactions involving protected patient health information...
Complying with the Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act HIPAA is a significant undertaking that can test the mettle of even the most seasoned data-security professional. With unmovable deadlines, thousands of stringent new regulations and severe penalties for non-compliance, HIPAA looms large for health-related organizations and other enterprises responsible for...
HIPAA, the Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act, enacted in 1996 are intended to provide continuity of healthcare insurance coverage. These standards are designed to improve the efficiency and effectiveness of the healthcare system by standardizing the interchange of electronic data for specified administrative and financial transactions, and protect the...
While HIPAA requirements represent an increase in workload for audit professionals, they also offer some unique opportunities to make the job easier. The paper summarizes that by adopting a proactive approach to the project, taking advantage of natural synergies among the total audit initiatives and making skillful use of the...
This case study discusses the success of HealthSouth's use of McAfee Preventsys security risk management solutions for an enterprise deployment in its corporate data center, spanning across 50,000 nodes. Timely implementation allowed HealthSouth to complete HIPAA compliance audits on time and within trending windows that supported its overall HIPAA certification.
Our HIPAA compliance calculator will help covered entities determine the status of their compliance efforts in the areas of HIPAA Privacy, Standardization of Code Sets, Security, National Provider Identifier, and Monitoring. The Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act HIPAA requires all healthcare organizations using electronic protected health...
When a new processing platform dramatically increased the scope of Blue Shield of California's BSC Healthcare Insurance Portability and Accountability Act HIPAA compliance efforts, the company turned to EDS to help speed development. EDS consultants with experience in both HIPAA and mainframe integration issues joined the BSC team to assist...
Find out what you need to know about HIPAA compliance and remote access. Every business that is part of the United States healthcare industry needs to comply with federal guidelines regulating patient information. Citrix® GoToMyPC® Corporate is a remote-access solution that can help your company or office...
A large US provider of pharmaceuticals, infusion therapy, and other services to long-term-care and residential facilities such as nursing homes and specialty hospitals wanted to enforce HIPAA Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act compliance. One of the key areas was the Individual Rights System. Infosys delivered a robust solution that...
The purpose of this whitepaper is to provide information on how FUSION PACS can support the overall Healthcare Insurance Portability & Accountability Act HIPAA compliance efforts. This paper includes information specific to the Privacy and Security. Each organization must determine the combination of approaches that best fits its organizational needs....
The paper depicts about a survey, which reveals that Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act HIPAA compliance headed the top five list of healthcare organizations' business concerns for the next two years. It is hard to imagine achieving even basic HIPAA compliance in a paper-based emergency department. Emergency nurses and...
Overlake Hospital Medical Center (with annual revenues of over $200 million) is a highly rated hospital that cares for about 150,000 patients each year. Like all United States healthcare organizations, it must comply with the federal Health Insurance Portability & Accountability Act of 1996 regulations starting in October 2003. This...
Blue Shield of California BSC originally planned to perform all Healthcare Insurance Portability and Accountability Act HIPAA compliance work using in-house resources. Integrating its new processing platform with back-end systems proved more complicated than it originally expected. A unique partnership with EDS helped ensure the organization met its deadlines. Enacted...
Sutter Health is one of the nation's leading not-for-profit networks of community healthcare services, serving more than 100 communities in Northern California. It needed to ensure the HIPAA-compliance of its e-mail system, but wanted its solution to be simple and inexpensive to deploy and maintain. The CertifiedMail solution, running on...
U.S. Physical Therapy USPh which provides Outpatient physical and occupational therapy wished to streamline the management of Patient Health Information records and ensure Healthcare Insurance Portability and Accountability Act HIPAA compliance. Seeking a partner to help them streamline their medical records management and comply with the privacy requirements of HIPAA,...
Article discusses practical guidelines. It is estimated that HIPAA compliance could cost the healthcare industry in the United States more than the amount expended on Y2K preparedness. In addition, there are new regulations concerning the earthquake retrofits of hospitals that could price many standalone community hospitals out of the market....
This paper reports that with or without the extra incentive of HIPAA compliance, the healthcare industry has much to gain by transforming payment and remittance processing into electronic formats. Finding the right combination of internal and external resources and understanding the savings in time and money are the keys to...
Whether any hospital or business is launching a new, or upgrading an existing PACS application, expanding into new facilities, executing a merger/acquisition, migrating off legacy HIS/RIS/CIS systems, implementing HIPAA compliance plans, or simply requiring more storage capacity, IBM has a storage solution that can help support their requirements. IBM TotalStorage...
This paper describes the increasing regulatory pressures faced by healthcare firms in all aspects of their day-today business operations. Regulations surrounding the management and availability of critical healthcare data including clinical trial data and patient and insurance claims information have lead to sweeping changes both in the United States and...
