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Designed to handle the unmet desire for significant and well timed tips on HIPAA software layout and implementation, The HIPPA software Reference guide is meant to be used by way of administrative and fiscal pros, technical execs, and experts. The ebook presents details and counsel at the salient components of the HIPAA act and its mandated implementation to these in positions of accountability for the monetary, administrative, privateness, defense, and help of a HIPAA software. The HIPPA application Reference guide is the single single-source, definitive quantity that addresses HIPAA criteria and compliance concerns and is counseled by way of HCCO, the HIPAA compliance criteria physique.
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It could be reasonably assumed that not all members of the entity’s workforce are expected to come in contact with PHI, and thus further assumed that not everyone requires such training. The CEO is an obvious example, as would the chief operations and financial officers, and potentially others. Nevertheless, consideration must be given to the “chance” encounter with PHI. If the encounter involved these officers, they must know precisely what to do and whom to see about it. As the leaders, having a grasp of the Act and the risks and penalties associated with violations would seem mandatory given their fiduciary obligations to the entity and to any shareholders of it.
This, it is believed, will provide reasonable protection to individuals from adverse consequences, and possibly predatory or otherwise inappropriate marketing practices caused by disclosures of this information. It is believed by most that there is a very close, intertwined relationship between privacy and security within the context of HIPAA. The basic mission of any information security program is to ensure the preservation of Confidentiality, Integrity, and Availability (C-I-A) of that information, and privacy, for all intents, equates to Confidentiality.
If a health care clearinghouse is part of a larger organization, the clearinghouse must implement policies and procedures that protect the electronic protected health information of the clearinghouse from unauthorized access by the larger organization. (B) Access authorization (Addressable). Implement policies and procedures for granting access to electronic protected health information, for example, through access to a workstation, transaction, program, process, or other mechanism. (C) Access establishment and modification (Addressable).