Services
Our task is to help our clients learn how to better function in their world by way of clinical process improvement, team building, and culture change.
Compliance
We will work with your practice to develop a plan to comply with ARRA and HITECH regulations and educate your staff on the realities of what meaningful use requires.
The assessment will identify your current clinical systems and the actual state of use.
This process and will create an understanding of not just the technology gaps but the culture and process barriers and issues you will need to overcome.
Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act (HIPAA)
Key HIPAA requirements include identifying and assessing security risks, planning and implementing security solutions to protect sensitive information, and establishing measures to monitor and manage security systems.
The HIPAA review will:
- Create a security benchmark for client organization with respect to specific compliance requirements of HIPAA, including administrative, technological and physical safeguards.
- Identify the strengths and weaknesses of current security practices, including treatment of PHI.
- Prioritize the exposures by degree of risk, to assist in realistically planning remediation.
- Deliver risk mitigation recommendations that address HIPAA-centric compliance requirements, applicable CFR standards, and best business practices for your organization and the healthcare industry.
- Help avoid becoming a data breach headline or privacy violation statistic.
Health Information Technology for Economic and Clinical Health (HITECH) Act
Our HITECH compliance audit provides a thorough evaluation of the client’s overall security posture in order to identify vulnerabilities, assist you in making remediation decisions to achieve compliance, and ensure that your information and network assets remain safe from the rising tide of cybercrime.
The HITECH Compliance Assessment will:
- Create a security benchmark for your organization with respect to specific compliance requirements of the Health Information Technology for Economic and Clinical Health (HITECH) Act of 2009, including the Privacy Rule and Security Rule, Standards for the transport, exchange and protection of PHI, and more.
- Identify the strengths and weaknesses of current security practices, including transactional PHI encryption.
- Prioritize the exposures which present the greatest risk.
- Deliver risk mitigation recommendations that address HITECH HIPAA-centric compliance requirements, applicable CFR standards, and best business practices for your organization and industry.
Meaningful Use and OSHA Training
We have developed the Meaningful Use Assessment to educate organizations on the realities of what meaningful use requires. The assessment will identify the organization’s current clinical systems and the actual state of use, and will create an understanding of not just the technology gaps but the culture and process barriers and issues you will need to overcome. Our knowledge, tools and skills lead to a clear understanding of the technology, culture and process changes required to meet the targets necessary to achieve the goal.
OSHA ensures that you are operating with safe and healthful working conditions. Failure to implement OSHA training, and have an effective OSHA manual can lead to numerous governmental investigations and stiff sanctions. HITEC can help you and your organization institute a comprehensive OSHA training or retraining, and develop compliance standards.
