Health Information Portability & Accountability
Act
HIPAA compliance is a top priority at E-Z Scribe. E-Z Scribe
meets or exceeds HIPAA security recommendations. To ensure
document integrity and patient confidentiality, E-Z Scribe
implements industry standard security and encryption methods.
What It Means
HIPAA compliance is a complex issue and imposes different
requirements on different entities. In general, HIPAA
compliance requirements include:
- Building initial organizational awareness of HIPAA
- Comprehensive assessment of the organization's privacy practices, information security systems and procedures, and
use of electronic transactions
- Developing an action plan for compliance with each rule
- Developing a technical and management infrastructure to
implement the plans
Implementing a comprehensive implementation action plan,
including
- Developing new policies, processes, and procedures to
ensure privacy, security and patients' rights
- Building business associate agreements with business
partners to support HIPAA objectives
- Developing a secure technical and physical information
infrastructure
- Updating information systems to safeguard protected
health information (PHI) and enable use of standard claims
and related transactions
- Training of all workforce members
- Developing and maintaining an internal privacy and
security management and enforcement infrastructure,
including providing a Privacy Officer and a Security Officer
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any questions about our services and how we can meet your
medical transcription needs.
