Tips to secure healthcare data

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Tips to secure healthcare data
Office for Civil Rights is investigating
Healthcare Insurance Portability and
Accountability Act. More than 66 million in
fines have been assessed by medical practices. It
is primary responsibility of medical practice
owner to secure the data of their patients. To
govern electronic data, healthcare organizations
needs to create policies and rules. When creating
internal policies to satisfy HIPAA and protect
patients, these are some best tips to secure
healthcare data. Personal health
records Personal health records (PHI) must be
encrypted in communication. That means that any
database where patient information resides needs
to be secured, as well as any method of sending
it. Most electronic medical record (EMR)
solutions include secure communications portals
for intra-office communications, as well as
messages sent to and from patients. Encryption
adds an additional level of safeguarding when it
comes to protecting data. Regular risk
assessment Part of HIPAA compliance is conducting
a risk assessment to determine any vulnerability
in data transmission, storage, or sharing.
Without an expert team member who is vigilant and
knowledgeable on data security, contracting a
security consultant to perform a risk assessment
is usually a good investment. Assessments should
be done at least annually, if there are any major
changes to the business processes or hardware,
during certain staff turnover, or after a move.
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Tips to secure healthcare data
Staff Training Your staff should be trained on
HIPAA laws and how your business complies. A good
deal of the practices for safeguarding PHI are
not necessarily intuitive, especially when laws
change or are updated. Regular training should
take place for new staff, when there is a staff
turnover, and periodically to keep the knowledge
fresh. Prepare for the worst The speed of your
response and mitigation are components of the
policies required by HIPAA. Maintain and be ready
to executive an action plan in case of a breach.
Review procedures regularly so that you know
which steps to take should data security become
compromised. Know your vendors Because all
business entities that access or process PHI must
comply with HIPAA, you need to know that you can
trust your partners to uphold the privacy of your
patients. Be familiar with your practices
business associate agreements. Ask them to see
their risk assessments. Health Insurance
Portability and Accountability Act of 1996 is a
legislation that provides data privacy and
security provisions for safeguarding medical
data. We at Medisys Data Solutions ensure that
all our processes are HIPAA compliant. Extensive
HIPAA training is provided to everyone here who
handles patient health data. All patient health
information is protected.
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Tips to secure healthcare data
You can outsource medical billing service to
Medisys and focus on your patients treatment
instead of their data security. About Medisys We
are a group of medical billing experts who offer
comprehensive billing and coding services to
doctors, physicians hospitals. We provide end
to end billing and coding solutions. Medisys Data
Solutions RCM solutions ensures that the
providers recover every they are entitled to.
Our vision for the providers is You Cure. We
ecure.
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