Hipaa Made Simple: A Guide to Fast-Tracking Compliance

by Amatayakul, Margret

• ISBN13: 9781578392254
• ISBN10: 157839225X
• Edition: 2nd
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2003-01-01
• Publisher: Hcpro Inc

Summary

The goal of this book is to provide you with a practical guide to implementing the administrative simplifications regulations under the Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act (HIPAA) of 1996. It's geared toward helping to ease your workload in these demanding days of preparing for HIPAA compliance on top of all of your other responsibilities.

Table of Contents

About the Author	p. v
Acknowledgments	p. vi
Introduction	p. vii
What is HIPAA?	p. vii
Why a second edition?	p. vii
Administrative simplification	p. vii
Need for standards	p. ix
How does this book help?	p. ix
Monitoring and reading HIPAA rules	p. x
HIPAA Project Management	p. 3
HIPAA involves everyone	p. 3
Gaining senior management commitment	p. 4
Managing the project	p. 6
Privacy and Security	p. 19
The need for standards	p. 19
What are privacy and security?	p. 20
HIPAA compliance	p. 24
How can vendors help?	p. 32
The bottom line	p. 33
Uses and Disclosures	p. 37
Federal law versus regulation	p. 37
Orientation to privacy rule	p. 38
Uses versus disclosures	p. 39
Privacy standard compliance	p. 45
Required versus permitted uses and disclosures	p. 48
The bottom line	p. 53
Individual Rights	p. 57
The golden rule of privacy	p. 57
Patient rights	p. 57
Rights of covered entities	p. 59
Right to notice of privacy practices	p. 60
Right to request restrictions	p. 63
Right to receive confidential communications	p. 64
Right of access to information	p. 65
Right to amend	p. 67
Accounting of disclosures	p. 67
Administrative requirements	p. 68
Consumer privacy in the electronic age	p. 70
The bottom line	p. 71
Administrative Security	p. 75
What is information security?	p. 75
What is risk?	p. 76
What is risk analysis?	p. 85
Security management	p. 89
Human resource (HR) support	p. 92
The bottom line	p. 93
Physical and Technical Security	p. 97
Media controls	p. 99
Physical access controls	p. 102
Workstation use and location	p. 103
Technical services and mechanisms	p. 103
The bottom line	p. 110
Implementing HIPAA Transactions, Code Sets, and Identifiers	p. 113
What transactions?	p. 113
Flow of transactions	p. 115
Coordinating the players	p. 116
Data elements	p. 121
Code sets	p. 123
Preparing for implementation	p. 123
Identifiers	p. 125
Current status of identifier regulations	p. 125
Provider preparation	p. 129
The bottom line	p. 130
Documentary Evidence of Compliance	p. 133
Governmental enforcement	p. 133
Marketplace enforcement	p. 136
Documentation	p. 138
HIPAA compliance	p. 142
The bottom line	p. 143
Case Studies	p. 147
Continuing Education Quiz	p. 157
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