HIPAA Security Rule mandates the implementation aspects of how the technical, administrative and physical safeguards must be in place for securing Protected Health Information (PHI). This is applicable to dental practices, as well. Dental practices thus need to understand the ways by which to put these safeguards in place to meet HIPAA Security Rule compliance requirements.
The Privacy, Security, and Breach Notification rules set out by HIPAA apply to a dental practice that meets what HIPAA defines as a Covered Entity. Those dental practices that are deemed Covered Entities are required to take steps aimed at compliance with the HIPAA Security Rule requirements. Dental practices have to comply with HIPAA requirements when it comes to almost all areas.
They are required to:
- Thoroughly read and understand all of the requirements
- Create a HIPAA compliance team
- Create policies and procedures
- Train workforce members
- Perform a risk assessment
- Comply with the rules related to how to delegate tasks
- Make compliance an ongoing activity.
HIPAA compliance is an ongoing activity
HIPAA concedes and states that achieving and being in a state of compliance is a very important activity that has to be performed consistently, and into which dental practices need to invest significant resources in the form of people and time, in addition to many others along the way.
HIPAA also has elaborate rules on activities such as taking appointment with a HIPAA Privacy Official or a HIPAA Security Official for dental practices that come under the HIPAA’s definition of a Covered Entity. More interestingly, a dental practice has to ensure that conversations about the dental condition between patients and their accompaniers do not get overheard by other patients sitting for their turn in the dental clinic!
Learn the ways of implementing HIPAA compliance in dental practices
In addition to complying with all the requirements in detail; dental practices have to also deal with many subjective, interpretative gray areas of the HIPAA Security Rule. Considering these stringent requirements, being in compliance with HIPAA is a challenge and a complexity for dental practices that come under the definition of Covered Entity.
Clearing the difficult areas of HIPAA compliance for dental practices is the intention of a highly valuable webinar that is being organized by MentorHealth, a leading provider of professional trainings for the healthcare industry. At this webinar, the highly experienced healthcare professional, Jay Hodes, who is president of Colington Security Consulting, LLC, and has over 30 years of combined experience in risk assessments, site security evaluation, regulatory compliance, policy and procedures assessments, and federal law enforcement management; will be the speaker.
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Ensuring if the HIPAA compliance program is sufficient
The aim of this session is to equip participants with the knowledge needed to understand if their HIPAA compliance program is sufficient for meeting the requirements set out in this Act and for withstanding governmental scrutiny. Jay will familiarize participants of this webinar with the implementation aspects relating to administrative, technical and physical safeguards which are required under the Security Rule. He will also cover important related aspects such as overall best security practices for PHI and how HIPAA Privacy Rule relates to the following:
- Patient’s rights
- Access to medical records
- Disclosures and best practices to safeguard personal health information.
Jay will cover the following areas at this session:
- Understanding what are the HIPAA Security and Privacy Rules
- Understanding the entire HIPAA compliance process from the start to ongoing requirements
- What is a HIPAA Risk Assessment?
- What are HIPAA training requirements?
- What is a HIPAA data breach, how to avoid one, and what happens if one does occurs
- How to create a Culture of Compliance in your dental practice
- Q&A.
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