HIPAA Consulting Services
Experts say that the recent financial crisis and credit crunch will not spare the healthcare and medical communities. Among those potential changes is likely to be a shake-up within medical group practices and nursing homes facing human resource decisions, payroll cuts or updating technology.

This is an excellent time to consider the use of contract, interim and part-time outsourcing that provides professional expertise without the added burden to payroll and benefits or long-term commitments.

 

  • NEW: HITECH Business Associate Program
  • HIPAA privacy & security regulatory guidance in organizational design, development and implementation
  • HIPAA Privacy and Security Auditing
  • Strategic compliance planning (merging groups)
  • Interim HIPAA privacy & security officer staffing
  • HIPAA training and awareness programs

Cost-Effective HIPAA Privacy Officer | Part-time or Interim
If you are faced with human resource cut backs, compliance is an area that is difficult to adjust. A solution can be a part-time (outsourced) HIPAA Privacy professional. You only pay for the services you require with no expensive benefits packages. On-site hours can be arranged to fit the needs and budget of your organization. Outsourcing is an excellent way to remain flexible in changing times. Services include:

  • Managing HIPAA compliance throughout organization
  • Maintaining up-to-date policies, procedures and forms
  • Conducting regular GAP assessment
  • Maintaining training and awareness program
  • Reporting to Board on status of HIPAA compliance
  • On-call for HIPAA violation or incident
  • Conducting annual security evaluation (audit)

Annual HIPAA Security Evaluation | On-Site

The Security Rule represents a management-based approach for healthcare and related organizations to apply administrative safeguards, physical safeguards, technical safeguards, organizational requirements and policies and procedures and documentation requirements.

 

As a means of monitoring compliance with the Security Rule, HIPAA created the Evaluation Standard 164.308(a)(8), which requires a periodic technical and non-technical evaluation of the healthcare organizations security safeguards to demonstrate and document compliance with their security policies and the security rule requirements.

 

The on-site audit combines HIPAA Security Standards with the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) HIPAA implementation guidelines to steer the process of a controlled evaluation. The audit covers over 260 questions relating to the Security Rule and Evaluation Standard. A Certificate of Completion is issued following successful completion of the security evaluation.

 

HIPAA Tune-up
Many organizations become involved with a merger or acquisition of additional healthcare groups. An on-site HIPAA tune-up is an excellent way to tap an outside HIPAA professional to examine the HIPAA programs of each organization and advise the best strategy for combining the best of both organizations and developing a standard, unified program for all.

 

Contact Information:  HipaaVitalSigns@gmail.com

 

Compliance Consulting | Contract