HIPAA Group's HIPAA Compliance Manual is a comprehensive guide to HIPAA and HIPAA compliance. Designed to make compliance and administration of HIPAA simple, the HIPAA Compliance Manual covers everything you need to know to move forward on HIPAA compliance. From creating a compliance Plan, to managing patients' new HIPAA Rights, to state law preemption, the HIPAA Compliance Manual will become the most useful HIPAA tool you own.

The HIPAA Compliance Manual includes the following chapters...

1. Doing HIPAA Right - What to Do and How to Start Your Journey to HIPAA Success.
2. Introduction to HIPAA - A concise introduction and overview of HIPAA, with information on history, applicability, deadlines, scope and major issues for Healthcare Providers.
3. HIPAA Compliance Calendar - A detailed table of all major HIPAA elements and their corresponding status and deadlines.
4. Transactions, Code Sets, Identifiers - An Introduction and overview of HIPAA’s Transactions, Code Sets, and Identifiers.
5. HIPAA Sanctions and Penalties - A complete description of the sanctions and penalties for HIPAA non-compliance, and for wrongful disclosure of Protected Health Information.
6. PHI: Protected Health Information - Clear guidelines on PHI: its identification, common PHI data types, typical sources of PHI, and areas where PHI is frequently compromised.
7. Business Associates - Official definition of Business Associates, common types of Business Associates, relationships that are NOT Business Associates, and BA Contracts info.
8. HIPAA's Training Requirements - Excerpted text of HIPAA law addressing training requirements, and guidance on training’s impact on HIPAA Compliance, liability, and risk management.
9. Patients' New HIPAA Rights - Descriptions of the new Patients’ Rights
provided for in HIPAA, and Guidance on how to administer these Rights on a daily basis.
10. Final Privacy Rule: Page References - Cross-reference of every element of the Final Privacy Rule, showing the location (by page number) of all Background, Comments, and Rules.
11. State Medical Privacy Laws - Outline of current (Your) State laws pertaining to the privacy, confidentiality, and protection of personal medical records and information.
12. HIPAA Glossary and Acronymary - Extensive listing of HIPAA and HIPAA-related terms and acronyms likely to be encountered.

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