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Medical Coders Should Be Well-Versed With HIPAA

by HIPAA

Apart from having expertise in medical coding know-how, and of course a coding certification, a key skill that a professional coder must have is a sound understanding of a federal law called Health Information Portability and Accounting Act (HIPAA). It’s as important in your career as the codes you use to diagnose services and procedures. [...]

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The Importance of HIPAA Training for Call Center Operators

by HIPAA

Call centers are nothing new; they’ve been around for years. Chances are good that you’ve even considered one of these centers for your medical office. However, you might have found that the security and HIPAA compliance were lacking, leading to fears of compromised privacy and a lack of protection for patients’ vital information. However, you [...]

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Medical Billing Service - Hipaa Compliance

by HIPAA

Medical Billing Services ensure compliance of The Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act (HIPAA) of 1996. HIPAA regulation protocols are issued to protect client's information safely. It also encourages the use of electronic processing and data transferring through multiplexer, router or modem which ensure high degree of privacy.  HIPAA has issued laws to release information [...]

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Hipaa Document Destruction ? the Highest Standards

by HIPAA

Most people who visit a doctors office, hospital or medical clinic are completely unaware of what hipaa document destruction standards are. Briefly what hipaa standards are is a set of guidelines that were drawn up to provide a set of standards for how medical records are destroyed after they leave an office. Not adhering [...]

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Medical Transcription Company in Oklahoma

by HIPAA

Medical transcription companies in Oklahoma provide efficient medical transcription solutions for medical professionals and healthcare facilities including multi-specialty hospitals, long-term care clinics, acute care centers, individual physicians, group practices, rehabilitation clinics and others. Utilizing highly structured medical transcription solutions offered by these transcription companies, healthcare experts can keep medical reports up-to-date and ensure easy retrieval [...]

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HIPAA Medical Transcription for Clinics and Hospitals

by HIPAA

HIPAA medical transcription services for clinics and hospitals ensure greater privacy and security for all the patient medical records and data. The majority of healthcare facilities including acute care centers, nursing homes, clinics and hospitals take care to ensure that their medical transcription service provider is one who offers HIPAA compliant solutions. HIPAA Compliance for [...]

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Transitioning to EMR – Is It Worth It?

by HIPAA

A lot of healthcare providers in the US healthcare industry as well as in the government are now familiar with EMR or electronic medical records. <a rel="nofollow" onclick="javascript:_gaq.push(['_trackPageview', '/outgoing/article_exit_link/1180897']);" href="http://www.healthtec-software.com/fusion.htm">EMR</a> is a computerized edition of the traditional paper-based medical record of a patient.  The EMR should not be confused or interchanged with EHR as both [...]

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Empowered OCR: Ensuring Better HIPAA Compliance From Covered Entity and Business Associate

by HIPAA

The HHS office for Civil Rights also known as OCR, in its attempt to tighten HIPAA privacy regulations has detailed out six new ways to deal with reports related to the breaches in patient health information. The OCR aims to obtain HIPAA compliance from Covered Entity and Business Associate by implementing new rules. This is [...]

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Outsource Medical Transcription at Cost-Effective Rates

by HIPAA

Today, medical transcription is one of the most commonly outsourced jobs. To fulfill the medical transcription requirements of healthcare professionals, several established outsourcing companies in the United States offer consistent medical transcription services at cost-effective rates. These services are available to all medical facilities and practices such as multi-specialty hospitals, rehab clinics, individual physicians, nursing [...]

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Hipaa Rights

by HIPAA

The Hippa or Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act was passed by congress in 1996 in order to provide Hipaa rights or protection for employees when they change jobs or are involuntarily terminated from their job. The Health Insurance Portability Accountability Act was also designed to prevent health care fraud and to insure that the [...]

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Understanding HIPAA Training

by HIPAA

HIPAA training can be done in a classroom setting or online depending on the student’s schedule and personal preference.  Typically, this type of training will cost around $300, which covers both privacy and security rules and regulations for an organization in or associated with the medical field.  While employees often get involved with HIPAA [...]

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HIPAA Medical Transcription Providers in Oklahoma

by HIPAA

The governments globally have increased the focus on ‘good healthcare services for all' and this has led to a rush of people to healthcare centers for health checkups followed by treatment. This has necessitated the maintenance of more number of medical records in healthcare units, and added to the increasing workload of healthcare professionals. Now [...]

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Minnesota Health Care Directive- Disclosure of Health Information Governed by Hipaa

by HIPAA

A Minnesota Health Care Directive typically does not empower a health care agent to act on behalf of the principle until the principal lacks capacity to make those decisions.  That is why it is a good idea to include specific language within the Health Care Directive that addresses this issue.  Minnesota Section 145C.08 states that [...]

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What Is the Significance of Hipaa Training?

by HIPAA

If you have been looking into using a medical answering service then you have probably come across the name HIPAA training.  What does this distinction mean?  HIPAA stands for Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act.  This act was passed largely as a means to ensure privacy rules for workers who handle medical and pharmaceutical cases.  [...]

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HIPAA Compliant, Secure and Automatic Remote Data Files Backup and Offsite Data Files Storage

by HIPAA

Accurate Data Storage is a company that provides HIPAA compliant, secure and automatic remote data files backup and offsite data files storage.  Just what is it exactly? Anyone who has used a computer knows what backup is. On the most basic level, it means having a copy of your file either as a printout or [...]

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Business Associate HIPAA Compliance

by HIPAA

Business Associates are required to comply with HIPAA Privacy and Security rules as per the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act of 2009 (the Act). Title XIII of the Act is artfully entitled the Health Information Technology for Economic and Clinical Health (also referred to as HITECH) Act. It is very important for the covered entities [...]

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Accurate Medical Transcription for All Medical Specialties

by HIPAA

At present, scores of medical specialties make use of the medical transcription services of reliable outsourcing firms so that they can focus on caring for their patients and building up their practice, without worrying about lengthy clinical document transcription procedures. Outsourcing medical transcription services has various advantages for all medical specialties such as less paperwork, [...]

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HIPAA Medical Transcription for Family Practice Clinics

by HIPAA

HIPAA medical transcription services for family practice clinics enable family practice clinics to assure privacy and confidentiality of healthcare records. Medical transcription services for family practice clinics also minimize the workload of family physicians and significantly enhance their efficiency and productivity. Ensures Professional Documentation of Patient Records Family practice clinics offer a wide range of [...]

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HIPAA's Role in Liability Cases Tested in Mich

by HIPAA

Michigan's Supreme Court is set to decide whether the Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act preempts a state law allowing defendants in medical liability lawsuits to informally interview plaintiffs' other treating physicians -- a move that doctors say could put them at a disadvantage in defending such cases. At issue is whether cardiologist Mark Rasak, [...]

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Jail Term for Employee Underscores Importance of Hawaii Employers Complying With HIPAA

by HIPAA

In June 2009, a 22-year-old Honolulu mother of three young children was sentenced to a year in prison for illegally accessing another woman's medical records and posting on a MySpace page that she had HIV. The State of Hawaii brought charges against the woman under a state statute criminalizing the unauthorized access to a computer; [...]

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