Total security, total peace of mind
HIPAA,
with its promise of transforming the health services industry, poses a
significant challenge to most healthcare organizations. For
organizations that are serious about making use of the enormous
opportunities of HIPAA, Truworth offers HIPAA Compliance Program
designed and driven by a cross-functional task force.
The
Compliance Program provides an effective framework for identifying and
correcting potential areas of non-compliance, which protects our
clients and us from potential fraud and error.
| Truworth's Security & Compliance Initiatives |
| Staff Education/Training |
Privacy |
Security |
| Conducting awareness programs for all employees |
Every employee signs confidentiality agreement with severe penalties for HIPAA violations |
Physical restrictions on access to work area and network center |
| Ongoing training and testing programs link HIPAA education to staff reward and recognition schemes |
Access to applications/ databases defined on ‘need to know’ and ‘minimum necessary’ basis |
Firewall protection for internal network from the world wide web |
| HIPAA resource directory to update employees on regulations, news and events |
HIPAA compliant procedures in risk areas like:
- Data processing
- Fax and email communication to external agencies
- Information disclosure to payers, patients, family members and others
- Storage, retrieval and/ or disposal of reports and physical records
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Enterprise-wide multiple virus protection system |
| All work scenarios faced till date are added to a database to server as reference for the future. |
Each user has unique login, power-on and screensaver passwords |