Handbook for HIPAA Security Implementation: Spiral Binding - Softcover
The "Handbook for HIPAA Security Implementation" gives readers an overview of the HIPAA Security Rule and familiarizes them with the basics of security requirements and documentation. It provides guidance in analyzing security risks in the medical office practice and features a wealth of tools to evaluate and establish physical, administrative and technological safeguards. It also includes an implementation timeline, budget considerations, and other potential resources for readers to use during the Security Rule implementation process, and it addresses the special security challenges for the electronic medical record.
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"After taking a close look at this handbook, I am confident that it will be the physician's key resource to achieve compliance with the HIPAA Security Rule."
Ted Cooper, MD Chair, Privacy and Security Committee, Kaiser Permanente Northern California Chair, Privacy and Security Task Force, Health Information and Management Systems Society (HIMSS)
Transitioning into HIPAA security compliance doesn't have to be confusing, time-consuming, or expensive. With a concise overview of regulations, section-by-section descriptions, charts, graphs, timelines, checklists, and case studies, the Handbook for HIPAA Security Implementation leads you into the core of the HIPAA Security Rule using a systematic, eight-step approach:
-Understanding the rules -Assigning responsibility -Building an implementation plan -Conducting a risk analysis -Developing security policies -Implementing administrative, physical, and technical controls -Delivering a security training and awareness program -Monitoring the ongoing security process
It also offers guidance in budgeting, assessing the need for external resources, hiring a security officer, organizing your staff, understanding electronic data interchange and electronic medical record systems, and managing your documentation as evidence of compliance. Easy-to-understand explanations of security terms will simplify the jargon and make you feel like a technology insider. And planning and documentation strategies will help you streamline your work with covered and non-covered entities.
Most important, the Handbook for HIPAA Security Implementation helps you evaluate the HIPAA security strategy that fits your practice. It can show you how to recognize your strengths and vulnerabilities, identify and protect your assets, and meet the April 2005 compliance deadline.
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- PublisherAmer Medical Assn
- Publication date2003
- ISBN 10 1579473571
- ISBN 13 9781579473570
- BindingPaperback
- Number of pages216
- EditorAmatayakul Margaret
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