Health Information Portability & Accountability
Act
HIPAA compliance is a top priority at EZ Scribe. EZ Scribe
meets or exceeds HIPAA security recommendations. To ensure
document integrity and patient confidentiality, EZ 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.
