HIPAA
(The Health Insurance Portability
and Accountability Act of 1996)
HIPAA calls for:
1. Standardization
of electronic patient health, administrative and
financial data
2. Unique health identifiers for individuals, employers,
health plans and health care providers
3. Security standards protecting the confidentiality
and integrity of "individually identifiable
health information," past, present or future.
Let our Certified Privacy Officers
perform a Gap Analysis to show you what you need to
do to become HIPAA Compliant.
Once you know how to protect and keep
your employees safe, then you need to make sure your
business is safe. In the case of natural or any other
disaster, how will you do business tomorrow? Where
is your software stored? Where is your backup of data?
Do you have the updates and patches and fixes applied
over the years?
How do you contact your employees?
Simply, HOW do you do business at
the highest percent possible?
Create a list of all your employees
and how to reach them.
Distribute copies to emergency team
leaders
Setup remote call forwarding service
with your phone provider – In the event of a
crisis, you can quickly re-route calls to a new location
Identify places that can be used as
temporary relocation facilities, make arrangements
before a crisis so your company and your employees
have priority if space becomes scarce.
Back up all your computer data every
night and store it in a secure off site location.
Make emergency arrangements with a
service provider. If your business relies heavily
on computers for its day to day operations arrange
with providers to have replacement equipment computers
and services available.
Document duties and responsibilities
for each job. This allows someone to step in when
a key employee is incapacitated
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