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HIPAA
Gap
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The Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act (HIPAA) is a set of federal regulations intended to protect the exchange of healthcare data. Full compliance requires healthcare organizations to understand the threats to health information and to implement a variety of safeguards and security best practices to ensure its protection. Improving information security is always more cost effective than reacting to a security breach. Understanding and controlling threats to protected health information requires continuous risk management through regular independent security assessments, otherwise known as a gap analysis.
A gap analysis is an essential tool in a health care IT manager's arsenal, as new state and federal regulations demand the protection of personal information about patients contained in healthcare company databases. VigilantMinds gap analysis pinpoints holes that IT departments need to resolve and protects health care companies from expensive penalties for breach of confidentiality that could be in excess of $250,000.
VigilantMinds gap analysis helps you to determine the necessary steps to meet HIPAA and PHIPA compliance. Our experts first evaluate your current procedures with existing health information law, which are then used generate a customized report that compares the gaps and outlines further actions.
VigilantMinds experts have completed dozens of HIPAA gap analyses for a variety of healthcare organizations including hospitals, pharmacies, government entities and corporations. At VigilantMinds, we strive to create solutions that help you mantain compliance after the gap analysis is completed, and as HIPAA regulations change over time.
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HIPAA Gap Analysis
VigilantMinds HIPAA Gap Analysis pinpoints holes by comparing your current compliance with the existing HIPAA requirements and reporting the 'gaps' between the them.
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