HIPAA Works to Protect Patient Info

As part of the promise to give patients the highest quality of health care, we have always kept information about their health confidential, sharing it only with people who need the information to do their jobs.

This law, the Health Insurance Portability & Accountability Act of 1996 or “HIPAA” for short, makes them a federal mandate for the first time.One of the major problems that is going on right now is medical identity theft. HIPAA is the perfect way to prevent this, so whenever you are dealing with a medical transcriptionist or anyone who will be dealing with your medical documents, it`s a good idea to ensure that they are HIPAA compliant.

Medical identity theft can be terribly dangerous for your patients. Imagine someone has an allergy to a commonly used medication such as penicillin and the records are changed due to someone else using their identity? It could end up being a deadly mistake.
There are many reasons that identity theft for medical reasons is bad, but you will find that you can keep this problem at bay by choosing to work only with HIPAA compliant blogs. This is the best way to keep your patients safe and secure.

Whenever you are looking to work with a medical transcription service, check their policy. Ensure that they really are HIPAA compliant before using them, even for a free trial.
Transdyne works with industry groups to ensure that its products and services meet or exceed industry standards with respect to the Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act of 1996 ("HIPAA"). Varian’s products and services are specifically designed to include features that help our customers comply with HIPAA. Transdyne uses a relational database that employs a secure login process requiring a user name and password. Transdyne supports role-based access. That is, users are assigned to groups, each with certain access rights, which may include the ability to edit and add data or may limit access to data. When a user adds or modifies data within the database, a record is made that includes which data were changed, the user ID, and the date and time the changes were made. This establishes an audit trail that can be examined by authorized system administrators.

HIPAA requires health care providers to enter into "business associate" contracts with certain businesses to which they disclose patient health information. These business associate contracts generally require the recipients of such information to use appropriate safeguards to protect the patient health information they receive. To perform certain service and support functions, Transdyne personnel may need access to patient health information maintained by its customers. As a result, Transdyne may be considered a "business associate" of customers to whom it provides such services. Transdyne will be providing its customers with a new standard business associate agreement that complies with HIPAA requirements. Sphere: Related Content