HIPAA Compliance
HIPAA regulations require health care organizations to be more efficient and run their organizations more securely to enhance
patient service and ensure the privacy and security of private personal health information.
The road to HIPAA compliance can be a challenge. Access to personal health information must be limited and its confidentiality
must be diligently protected. Secure systems and processes must be in place to provide information in a timely, efficient
and cost-effective way to the people that need to use it to drive patient healthcare decisions. In addition, healthcare organizations
need to provide a reliable audit trail for tracking and reporting communications.
Key HIPAA Privacy and Security Areas
- Authentication: In any exchange of electronic data, each party to the transaction must prove that every other party is exactly who they claim
to be.
- Access: All medical records must be secured from unauthorized access—even amongst its own employee body.
- Reporting/tracking: Log all access, transfers, and use of patient data (including for backup purposes), and audit those accesses, transfers,
and uses against patient authorization.
Sample Processes and Information Impacted by HIPAA
- Health claims and equivalent encounter information
- Enrollment in and disenrollment from a health plan
- Eligibility for a health plan
- Healthcare payment and remittance advice
- Health plan premium payments
- Referral certification and authorization
- Coordination of benefits
- Prescriptions
Captaris Support for HIPAA Compliance
Using Captaris Business Information Delivery solutions, healthcare organizations can improve their ability to securely and
efficiently access, route, manipulate and track processes, documents and data that are impacted by HIPAA regulations:
Learn more about how Captaris can help healthcare organizations support HIPAA compliance, reduce costs and improve efficiency
-- access our online toolkit or contact us today.
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