The Department of Health and Human Services requires organizations to conduct a risk analysis as the first step toward implementing safeguards specified in the HIPAA Security Rule, and ultimately achieving HIPAA compliance.
In the event of a PHI (protected health information) or HIPAA breach, the Office of Civil Rights requires several items from the reporting company. This also serves as a good starting place for improving your HIPAA compliance readiness.
With the litany of HIPAA breaches caused by business associates/IT vendors in the news lately, covered entities need to be more proactive when it comes to vetting their HIPAA hosting provider.
Are you on the hook to undergo a HIPAA audit, but you’re not quite sure where to start? Online Tech recently passed a HIPAA audit of our Michigan data centers, giving us the ability to offer HIPAA compliant hosting solutions to healthcare organizations that need to pass HIPAA audits of their own.
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HIPAA Compliant Data CentersBy outsourcing our data center, we have increased our revenue generating capability and ROI. I can reassign staff to provide faster responses to end user issues and develop faster, more complex solutions. - Erik Yochum, Director of IT, MMP |
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