HIPAA (Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act) was established in the USA in 1996 to protect an individual’s personal health care related information. The health care industry is required to comply with all set security measures of HIPAA to keep patients personal information confidential and safe. On April 21, 2005, all HIPAA guidelines regarding the development, management, and storage of health information became enforceable by law.
The guidelines were developed to protect private health information of patients. Health care providers and associates that have access to this information are required to follow strict guidelines and to implement processes to ensure the privacy of this confidential information. Failure to comply with these regulations carries severe fines and penalties.
Compliance with the HIPAA regulations can be difficult with paper based records systems. Challenges are security of the tracking, information and reporting on who has had access to it, and implementing policies related to PHI (personal health information). Document management systems inherently solve these challenges using encryption, access security, and tracking of document actions. Document management systems allow you to successfully implement and maintain a HIPAA compliance plan to mitigate your risks.
We are very much serious about HIPAA regulations. By adopting a best practices approach to privacy and security, we earn the confidence of the Clients. Every staff is highly conscious of handling sensitive client and patient information with the utmost confidentiality. We are committed to delivering services and products that enable our clients to meet the requirements of HIPAA.
