INCTech’s HIPAA Risk Assessment Helps Improve Security and Reduces Costs

By analyzing your organization’s workflows and data paths, we can help to establish more efficient data environments to improve security processes and remove costly, unnecessary steps from the workflow.

HIPAA Risk Analysis

Our HIPAA security risk analysis is a crucial part of HIPAA compliance, we will guide you through a comprehensive risk analysis to identify potential security issues that put your patients’ data and business at risk.

To be HIPAA compliant you need to:

• Establish a set of security standards
• Protect health information held or transmitted in electronic form –
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• Require administrative, physical, and technical safeguards
• Support the Privacy Rule requirements to reasonably safeguard ‘Patient Health Information (PHI)’ in all forms

Privacy Rule Examples:

• Train all employees on its privacy policies and procedures
• Properly dispose of documents containing protected health information
• Secure medical records with lock and key or pass code
• Create procedure for individuals to know to whom they can submit a complaint about a covered entity’s compliance with the Privacy Rule.

Security Rule Examples:

• Designate a security officer who oversees compliance
• Maintain policies & procedures that guide proper use of workstations and electronic media
• Ensure all employees have unique passwords
• Limit physical access to covered entity’s facilities
• For more information visit The Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) website