| HIPAA Protected Health Information - The first-ever federal privacy standards to protect patients' medical records and other health information provided to health plans, doctors, hospitals and other health care providers took effect on April 14, 2003. Developed by the Department of Health and Human Services (HHS), these new standards provide patients with access to their medical records and more control over how their personal health information is used and disclosed. They represent a uniform, federal floor of privacy protections for consumers across the country. State laws providing additional protections to consumers are not affected by this new rule. Congress called on HHS to issue patient privacy protections as part of the Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act of 1996 (HIPAA). HIPAA included provisions designed to encourage electronic transactions and also required new safeguards to protect the security and confidentiality of health information. The final regulation covers health plans, health care clearinghouses, and those health care providers who conduct certain financial and administrative transactions (e.g., enrollment, billing and eligibility verification) electronically. Most health insurers, pharmacies, doctors and other health care providers were required to comply with these federal standards beginning April 14, 2003. As provided by Congress, certain small health plans have an additional year to comply.
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The Accounting for Disclosures Report
Organizations that use Protected Health Information (PHI) are required by HIPAA to provide patients (upon request) a list of disclosures of the patient's PHI. This means that your organization must keep track of these disclosures and be able to compile the necessary information about them into a single report to patients.
Providing this Accounting for Disclosures report can be an onerous manual process that is prone to mistakes.
"HIPAA Track and Comply" makes this easy by keeping a record of disclosures so that you can print the HIPAA required Accounting for Disclosures report with a few mouse clicks when patients request them.
Forms for the Patient
Accommodating patient rights is easier when you don't have to explain everything about the process to the patient. "HIPAA Track and Comply" forms make it easy to understand and provide documentation of what happened. And since using one form for all types of patient requests can encourage some frivolous demands (after patients see all the options on the form), we provide separate forms for each type of request. They include:
*Assignment of a Personal Representative
*Request to Access Records
*Request for Accounting for Disclosures Report
*Accounting for Disclosures Report (automated by the tracking system)
*Request to Amend Records
*Request to Restrict Uses and Disclosures
*Request for Confidential Communications
*And more!
"HIPAA Track and Comply" is a secure web-based computer application that can be used without any special software installation other than a basic Web Browser (like Microsoft Internet Explorer or Netscape Navigator). And it can be securely accessed from a variety of locations.
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