HIPAA COMPLIANCE SERVICES

Expert Guidance

HIPAA Security Risk Assessment

HIPAA security risk assessments are an integral part of a holistic HIPAA compliance program. HIPAA security risk assessments remove the guesswork from HIPAA compliance by identifying potential risks, gaps, and vulnerabilities in your control environment that could compromise the confidentiality, integrity, and availability of protected health information (PHI) and electronic protected health information (e-PHI) held by your organization. The performance of HIPAA security risk assessments are required by the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) Office for Civil Rights (OCR). Healthcare organizations typically perform a HIPAA security risk assessment annually.

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HIPAA Security & Privacy Policy Gap Analysis

Performing a thorough review and comparison of your organization's Privacy and Security rules to all relevant HIPAA requirements, a HIPAA Security & Privacy Policy Gap Analysis identifies policies that may be missing and areas within current policies where improvements should be made. Remediation guidance will be provided to point your organization in a direction to help close any identified gaps. This will help management feel more confident that they have greater control of their HIPAA compliance position.

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HIPAA Privacy Walk-Throughs

Typically performed in conjunction with the HIPAA Security Risk Assessment, XCelerate personnel will review the privacy controls that are in place within hospital departments and affiliated clinics that regularly interact with patients and maintain their physical or electronic health records. Physical walk-throughs of the departments and locations will be performed to identify gaps in controls and areas for improvement.

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