HIPAA Compliance

HIPAA presents significant challenges … and vast opportunities. We help you achieve compliance step by step, from defining your HIPAA readiness through implementation of the processes and technical architecture that will not only make you compliant but also position you to reap the benefits afforded by implementation of HIPAA regulations. You will realize significant savings through the adoption of Internet-based technologies to transmit the new standardized transactions via Electronic Data Interchange. Benefits include:

• Faster benefits verification
• More accurate claims processing
• Accelerated cash flow
• Improved patient care
• Improved access to patient data and true interconnectivity among hospitals, clinics, and physician offices

We lead your organization to HIPAA compliance step by step:

• Step1: Survey
  We help you define your HIPAA readiness through an audit of the your clinical and business processes and technical architecture. The survey consists of a series of questions that you can answer on your desktop, on your own time. The questionnaire is designed to identify key areas of HIPAA compliance that will materially affect your organization.
• Step 2: Education
  Our HIPAA education is tailored to your organization’s needs. We conduct two HIPAA educational workshops for your organization: one for executive and management personnel with an emphasis on regulatory compliance, alternative strategies, and opportunities, and the second for staff professionals within your organization with an emphasis on implementation issues related to operations and systems.
• Step 3: Assessment and GAP Analysis
  Through a combination of surveys, interviews, and observations, our assessment and GAP analysis identify the areas within your organization that do not currently comply with the HIPAA regulations.
• Step 4: Network Compliance Assessment
  ACS HCS uses an intrusion detection network assessment tool, along with defined interviews and observations, to examine your network infrastructure and identify areas of non-compliance with the HIPAA regulations.
• Step 5: Implementation and Budget Planning
  Coupling expertise with robust information management tools, ACS helps you identify, prioritize, and organize activities related to achieving compliance with the HIPAA regulations.
• Step 6: Oversight
  Many organizations need additional assistance understanding the impact of HIPAA on their enterprise. ACS provides oversight resources to assist your compliance committee or task force with the many issues that must be faced and resolved in order to achieve full compliance.
• Step 7: Interim Staffing
  Finding the right staff to fill the two key positions of privacy and security officers can be a challenge for any organization. ACS provides the services of both privacy and security officers on an interim basis. These seasoned professionals work full time at your site. Having access to these resources will allow your organization to benefit from ACS Healthcare Solutions' extensive experience with HIPAA and take advantage of the best practices knowledge transfer. By utilizing our interim resources, your organization will be allowed the necessary time to make decisions about permanent staffing for these positions while complying with the HIPAA regulations.

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