This blog discusses how the SecurityMetrics HIPAA Portal can help with your HIPAA requirements.
Most healthcare providers are aware of HIPAA compliance but may not know where to start or understand its importance. With numerous requirements, a high level of technicality, and lack of clear explanations and examples, HIPAA compliance can feel overwhelming.
Even if you do begin tackling HIPAA compliance, it can be difficult to keep track of your compliance because there are so many steps, requirements, and policies.
However, there are some solutions available to help you keep track of your progress towards HIPAA compliance. SecurityMetrics offers a simple, user-friendly portal, to help you reach your security goals.
"HIPAA can be so difficult to understand. Thanks to SecurityMetrics I now know what I need to do to become compliant. They walk you through it. SecurityMetrics HIPAA Dashboard makes it so easy to locate information I need. I could not do this without SecurityMetrics."
-Cela Keeton at Nicholas W. Feldman, DDS
HIPAA includes a lot more than you may think. Like most healthcare entities, you’ve probably mastered the Privacy Rule side of HIPAA. Maybe you even have your Breach Notification Rules down pat. But the Security Rule is often more difficult to master.
The HIPAA Security Rule plays a crucial part in protecting patient medical data. Here are just a few examples of the implementation and documentation involved:
We want to make every part of HIPAA compliance easy for you.
That’s why the SecurityMetrics HIPAA Dashboard helps office managers and healthcare practitioners keep track of all things HIPAA.
This HIPAA compliance software is easy to update and doubles as a documentation tool.
Here are some of the most important parts of HIPAA compliance that are included in SecurityMetrics’ HIPAA compliance software dashboard.
As we mentioned before, most healthcare providers aren’t sure what they have left to do with HIPAA and miss critical security implementations. Our dashboard simplifies the HIPAA compliance process into straightforward, actionable to-dos that prompt you on next-step items for compliance.
You can even assign specific to-dos to employees within your compliance department, or across the organization.
A risk analysis is a way to assess the potential vulnerabilities, threats, and risks to protected health information (PHI) at your organization. The HIPAA risk analysis software guides you through how to properly conduct a Risk Analysis and documents your progress. It shows you where you are most vulnerable, and then the Risk Management Plan helps resolve those vulnerabilities.
Where exactly does all your protected health information flow? That’s a question practically no healthcare entity, or even their IT department, knows the answer to. If you don’t know where your patient data is stored, transmitted, or accessed, how can you protect it?
A PHI map is crucial to securing all patient information within a healthcare environment.
The Risk Management Plan is the compliance step that works through issues discovered in the risk analysis and provides a documented instance proving your active acknowledgement (and correction) of PHI risks and HIPAA requirements.
In this section, recording comments and notes are paramount to showing how you plan to correct certain security issues within your environment.
Healthcare organizations are required by HIPAA to implement privacy and security policies/procedures unique to their organization. As part of the SecurityMetrics HIPAA Dashboard, you can document exactly when policies are implemented and keep all policies in an easy to access location.
Did you know your greatest liability and security challenge are your own employees? Employees are forgetful. Workforce training helps them remember important security practices. Via the SecurityMetrics HIPAA Dashboard, you can track which employees have undergone training and which need to be trained again.
The HIPAA Final Omnibus Rule requires covered entities to implement or update a business associate agreement (BAA) for all relationships wherein the business associate creates, receives, maintains, or transmits electronic patient information. However, many companies have a hard time even knowing who their business associates are. The SecurityMetrics HIPAA Dashboard helps document business associate agreements and keeps track of all your business associates.
As part of the SecurityMetrics HIPAA Dashboard, users can download all the information contained in the dashboard, like their Risk Analysis and Risk Management Plan, as a report for audit preparation.
SecurityMetrics has worked hard to make compliance as easy and streamlined as possible for organizations so that they can become compliant and keep their organization safe from data breaches. The SecurityMetrics HIPAA portal helps organizations work towards HIPAA requirements so that they can have peace of mind.
Check out our HIPAA options here.
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