Tools to Help with HIPAA Compliance

HIPAA secures Protected Health Information and finding different ways to package HIPAA content can make it easier for your staff to learn, increase retention levels, and in turn protect your practice. The proper tools and resources prepare your organization for a number of possible situations, and the potential for violations and/or breaches decline.

Total HIPAA is always looking for ways to make the HIPAA compliance process less daunting for your staff. We have worked with many partners to find affordable HIPAA compliant solutions for our clients. In this blog, we are going to talk about some of the other resources we have; one fun, the others provide a more in-depth look at HIPAA compliance.

HIPAArdy*

NueMD, an EHR, Medical Billing, and Practice Management software company, created a parody that is sure to make you smile. HIPAArdy (a spoof on Jeopardy) is a game show centered around, you’ve guessed it, HIPAA. Check out the first episode below:

Content Focused HIPAA Webinars

In order to become HIPAA compliant your team needs to have tools on hand to help translate this complex rule. Total HIPAA partnered with NueMD and the law firm Taylor, English, Duma LLP to present two separate five-part webinar series instructing attendees how to create and maintain a HIPAA compliance plan.

The 2015 Steps to HIPAA Compliance webinar series featured:

1. Forming a Plan
2. Business Associate Agreements
3. Electronic Devices
4. Bring Your Own Device
5. Risk Assessments

The Achieving Compliance webinar series, conducted in 2016, featured topics that aid in achieving and maintaining compliance:

1. How to Prepare for a HIPAA Audit
2. Updating Your Plan & Training Your Staff
3. Electronic Devices in Your Practice
4. How to Prevent a Security Breach

HIPAA Survey

NueMD is a thought leader in the HIPAA space and has been using their resources to advance HIPAA adoption in the health care field. In 2014 and 2016, they surveyed over 1000 physicians and billing companies about their HIPAA Compliance. The results are fascinating and quite sobering. Click here to see the results.

*And for more laughs, check out the rest of NueMD’s HIPAArdy series at www.nuemd.com/hipaa

Sharing is caring!