HIPPA Compliance Services

HIPAA compliance regarding protecting patients’ health data should be ensured on three security levels: administrative, technical, and physical. On an administrative level, the rule requires healthcare providers to collect, process, and store data correctly and make it accessible. On a technical level, the HIPAA rule obliges the provider and business associates to create tools and systems that ensure patient data's safety, security, and integrity.  On a physical level, the rule enforces healthcare providers to maintain the security of the physical assets that store protected health information (physical servers, hardware, etc.)

Maintaining HIPAA compliance in the organization is a result of the cooperation of all participants involved in the healthcare processes. For example, if the tech vendor sticks to the technical requirements when developing a tool, but the healthcare workers don’t process patients’ data properly, the organization risks becoming incompliant. This is why we recommend creating a comprehensive HIPAA compliance plan that brings all teams together and provides a plan for each side to adhere to.

On our end, we do every required procedure a business associate should do to maintain high-quality HIPAA compliance services. We understand what the key legal definition means for the tech and how we can achieve the required results. We assist in securing data backup and transferring to an offsite data storage. And, of course, our team follows the technical, physical, and administrative safeguards during service provision.

HIPAA compliance means the degree to which the healthcare organization follows safety and security requirements regarding collecting, storing, and processing patients' protected health information (PHI) on three levels: administrative, physical, and technical.

HIPAA Security Rule (known as the Security Standards for the Protection of Electronic Protected Health Information) governs the subset of patient data that the covered entity creates, stores, receives, or collects electronically. It operationalizes the protections enlisted in HIPAA Privacy Rule and establishes the security standards that the covered entities must follow to secure electronic protected health information (ePHI).

HIPAA compliance checklist means the collection of the required steps a covered entity should undertake to ensure that it manages the patient’s data according to the requirements. The checklist usually contains the clauses from HIPAA Security and Privacy rules, HIPAA Breach Notification Rule, HIPAA Omnibus Rule, and HIPAA Enforcement Rule. 

The basic checklist includes annual auditing relevant to your healthcare organization, documenting deficiencies and remediation plans, appointing HIPAA Privacy and Security officer, training the team to follow HIPAA requirements across the departments, performing due diligence of the business associates (service providers that create tools used for PHI processing), etc. The full HIPAA checklist for 2022 you can read in the HIPAA Journal, and we recommend customizing it according to the peculiarities of your organization.

When working on HIPAA compliance solutions, we follow an agile approach that helps us continuously assess, develop, deploy, test, and implement needed changes to keep the tool or service up-to-date and minimize downtime. Our team understands the importance of 100% adherence to the requirements, and we use trackable project mapping to ensure that every activity follows the HIPAA Privacy and Security rules.

We provide our HIPAA compliance services following the industry’s best security practices and approaches. For example, we sign the non-disclosure agreement (NDA) even before the client trusts us with the project details for them to be sure we will keep the trade secrets and other sensitive information according to the law. We follow the privacy and security measures regarding the client’s information and the data we need to operate with for the project. All these cases are written out in detail in our paperwork.

Our company is an experienced provider of HIPAA compliance solutions and apps that are used in the healthcare industry. We know what technologies to use for the company’s technology to comply with HIPAA and other regulations and avoid fines. We’re also skilled in creating IoT for medical organizations, which provides us with more insight into the healthcare provision and expectations of various countries.

The change requests may come due to various reasons, and our team reviews them carefully. Usually, they may arise because of the company’s decision to change the project. Sometimes they may be caused by external factors (for example, new regulations coming into effect). We’re open to discussing each case and ready to implement necessary changes for you to have the best version of the tool or service.

Since we work both online and from the office, we either arrange in-person meetings or use communication tools for video conferences to discuss the project. We use Slack, Skype, security chats, and virtual data rooms for online communication, depending on the topic we discuss.