Category Archives: HIPAA Compliance

HIPAA Compliance Guidelines

As you might be knowing that HITECH act has given more teeth to HIPAA with heavy penalties and imprisonment for “willful neglect” and “non-compliance.” The penalties range from $100 to $1,500,000 per calendar year. All these come into effect from February 18, 2010. Furthermore, HIPAA regulations insist that compliance means “a not do once and forget issue” but an “ongoing dynamic process.
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Data Security in Medical Transcription Outsourcing

Companies are very conscious of their data that they outsource to medical transcription services. The case of Lubna Baloch from the country of Pakistan that threatened to publish highly confidential data over the Internet for a non-payment for services rendered has been used as an argument against outsourcing.
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HIPAA Medical Transcription Services for Clinic-Based Physicians

If you require secure and reliable medical transcription services regarding HIPAA then you must adopt that services which follow HIPAA compliant. Service providers in this field protect the patient’s health information observing all HIPAA rules and regulations. Continue reading

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Guidelines Of HIPAA Compliance

When you transcribe patients’ data, it is saved on your computer, on the server and on any medium you use to retrieve it from the source. That means, the patients data can be intercepted and hence, is not safe. This … Continue reading

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