Hipaa.In » HIPAA Compressed http://www.hipaa.in One Spot Hipaa Portal Covers All Hipaa Topics Tue, 01 Jun 2010 04:01:20 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.9.2 en hourly 1 HIPAA Compressed http://www.hipaa.in/hipaa-compressed.html http://www.hipaa.in/hipaa-compressed.html#comments Wed, 29 Jul 2009 05:06:00 +0000 admin http://www.hipaa.in/?p=15 The rules and regulations, which come under HIPAA, will be under two basic sub-divisions namely privacy and security. According to these, all the possible threats to the system need to be properly identified and determined and the loopholes and vulnerable areas in the system also need to be identified. Proper methods to take care of these vulnerable areas should be devised and the required rules and regulations as well as policies should be implemented which will help in achieving this goal.

There is no restriction regarding making use of an EMR or electronic medical record in any kind of computer or software, which comes under HIPAA. But you need to make sure that the data which has been stored on your computer is completely safe and that it cannot be stolen easily and you should also make sure that the database which contains the medical information regarding patients is completely secure and that no one can simply log onto the database. Enough backups should be created for the information, which has been stored so that it can be used in case the hard drive crashes. You should also make sure that the internal network, which contains all the medical information regarding patients, is completely safe and secure so that no outsider can enter the network.

Companies and organizations which are storing their medical records as a hard copy or in a paper format should make sure that the place of storage of all the medical records is completely safe and that the medical records will not get damaged in the event of a fire or any kind of theft. There should be a proper system in place, which will help in monitoring the movement and activities of people who can gain access to the medical records that have been placed in the storage area.

The penalty which will be incurred on violation of any of the rules which come under HIPAA will be $100 for each person and for every medical record which has been tampered with and this fine could also come up to $25000 in a year. But if the violation has only taken place due to certain unforeseen circumstances, then a certain time period will be allotted in which the problem can be set right.

When electronic medical records are used, meeting most of the requirements, which come under HIPAA, will not be very difficult and people need not worry about them. The server of the computer should be placed in a room which is completely safe and secure and which can be locked. People who want to make use of the system should have all the required authorization and permissions in order to access the database. Extra copies or backup copies of all the data should be kept in a safe and secure place so that they can be used in the event of an emergency. A person specializing in the field of computers and networking should be employed so that he can take care of the maintenance of the database, network as well as the computer.

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