HIPAA Management Archives

How to Handle HIPAA Privacy Complaints

by Hernan Serrano | Feb 12, 2020 | HIPAA Management, Privacy

Patients have the right to file a complaint when they believe your organization has mishandled their information or otherwise violated the HIPAA rules. Patients may mail, fax, or email a complaint to your organization or file one through the OCR’s Complaint Portal....

Gap Analysis: A Tool to Audit HIPAA Compliance

by Hernan Serrano | Jan 15, 2020 | HIPAA Management

You’ve heard of the SWOT analysis – a technique used to help businesses identify their strengths, weaknesses, opportunities, and threats. The SWOT analysis helps an organization identify its priorities and set a course of action. Similarly, a “gap” analysis can help a...

How to Use Checklists as a HIPAA Training and Compliance Inspection Tool

by shaan3 | Jan 8, 2020 | HIPAA Management, HIPAA Training

Checklists are popular in healthcare, particularly for doctors and nurses to use during certain procedures to improve patient safety. Though your compliance department won’t use checklists for this purpose, there are ways you can use them to streamline your HIPAA...

HIPAA Housekeeping: 4 Things to Review Before the New Year

by shaan3 | Dec 11, 2019 | HIPAA Management

Before you rush headlong into 2020, you might want to take a pause. In the next couple of weeks, take time to evaluate how well your HIPAA compliance program has run this year and what you can do to make it stronger in the new year. To help you evaluate and plan...

4 HIPAA Questions Answered for the Startup Business Associate

by Hernan Serrano | Nov 27, 2019 | HIPAA Management, Security

If you have a startup that provides a product or service to medical practices, you know there are regulations governing how you collect and use your clients’ data. If you handle the health information of your clients’ patients, you are your clients’ business...

What HIPAA Compliance Documentation Do You Need to Keep?

by shaan3 | Nov 20, 2019 | HIPAA Management

At a busy healthcare organization, your HIPAA compliance documentation can quickly become a tangled mess of papers and binders. You’re probably already frustrated by the sheer volume of files you’ve accumulated. But do you need all of it? When can you get rid of some...