HIPAA & Healthcare - Pharmacies, Medical Offices and Related Entities Take Note

HIPAA - Regulations and simple steps to get compliant easily and quickly
HIPAA & Healthcare - Pharmacies, Medical Offices and Related Entities Take Note; “Don’t Get Caught With Your Pants Down.”

HIPAA & Healthcare - Pharmacies, Medical Offices and Related Entities Take Note; “Don’t Get Caught With Your Pants Down.”

HIPAA regulations are going into effect and getting compliant will go by faster than you realize. How can you do this easily and without the associated headaches many in your shoes have experienced?

Well, my suggestion is to not put off to tomorrow what you can do today. Like waiting until the last minute to do your taxes, scheduling regular health check ups for YOURSELF and your eagerly anticipated spring cleaning.

Have you been to the pharmacy or a medical office lately? You may have been handed a paper to sign that is a privacy notice explaining your rights regarding information in your medical file and the measures they have take to protect your privacy. They also handed you a copy of your privacy rights that you must take with you. What you do with it after you leave the vicinity is your business!

In 1996, President Clinton had a Healthcare Reform Act passed. This was in an effort to standardize the costs of providing healthcare. It became clear that it was necessary for patients to trust healthcare providers, and completely disclose medical information that might impact their care. In addition, the Reform Act envisioned Administrative Simplification to keep healthcare costs down. The Health Information Portability & Accountability Act (HIPAA) was the result. How does HIPAA work in conjunction with managing these documents in a document management system and complying with all the rules and regulations? Simple, all patients now have a right to access their records; make a copy of their records; and add an amendment to their files. Making it who of you to put in an electronic management system to make this easy to do at your fingertips. If you can point and click with a computer mouse then you can point and click your way into time and cost saving activities relating to giving you and your patients/clients quick and easy access to information.

Healthcare providers and all covered entities that have to do with payment & operations must track all disclosures made on an individual's record. Also, Administrative Simplification is designed to facilitate electronic transmission and storage of medical data. This is where a specifically designed Record Care solutions will play its role with: · Document Routing · Audit Tracking & Logging · Roles-based Secure Access to the documents The fact that this specifically designed Record Care system utilizes a very proven and popular search engine that supports 250+ file types for viewing (including a new DICOM viewer for MRI's, CAT scans, and X-Rays) is a huge plus. Please take a look at the current document management system you know and love and how this Record Care software can be helping you with your HIPAA compliance issues. For related case studies and success stories contact me at kathy@smoothsolutions.com,

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