Rigorous analysis of your systems and workflows to ensure HIPAA compliance and safeguard PHI.
A thorough HIPAA risk assessment identifies where your safeguards meet standards and where improvements are needed to protect PHI.
With detailed findings and practical remediation plans, we help you strengthen compliance and use the results as a roadmap for smarter IT planning.
If you process or handle protected health information (PHI) in any capacity, then you are subject to the rules and regulations of HIPAA. HIPAA has a number of sections that create explicit requirements for data security, communication methods, and access controls for any system or device that interacts with PHI.
Compliance failures can incur large fines rapidly, and in severe cases, HIPAA non-compliance can close down a business or practice.
Risk assessments take a fine-tooth comb to your organization to ensure that you are in compliance at every turn. A thorough analysis will find even the smallest chances of violations, or else prove that you have gone above and beyond to maintain compliance.
Often paired with managed IT services, a HIPAA risk assessment can serve as a springboard to help guide your IT planning.
What does a HIPAA risk assessment look like in practice? The process constitutes a thorough audit of your business and how it handles PHI. For the most part, we can boil it all down into four steps.
The assessment starts with a comprehensive look at your data systems, IT resources, and existing security infrastructure. We go through it all to make sure it functions properly, provides you with adequate security, and most of all, meets HIPAA requirements.
HIPAA clearly outlines requirements for physically securing access to PHI. We will review your facilities to ensure that physical safety requirements are met, if not exceeded.
Paired with this review, we will look at administrative controls. Only authorized persons should be able to access devices that can reach PHI, even among staff.
We look for holes in your security and data management. Gap analysis looks for specific risks that could allow intrusion or mishandling of PHI. This includes things like software vulnerabilities, communication security gaps, and employee behaviors.
This is where we catch the minutiae that are easily overlooked or missed in other inspections.
We document everything that we find: good, bad, and in between. We then make a remediation plan that clearly outlines all of our recommendations, how they can be implemented, and areas where you have room to make specific decisions.
We can customize the remediation plan to match your existing IT resources, and we can make recommendations where Integrity Technology Solutions bolsters your IT through managed services.
A HIPAA risk assessment could save you countless dollars in fines. More importantly, it can make sure that your patients’ information is in fact safe. The process starts with a simple conversation.
Contact us today, and we’ll explain exactly how it works and what you can expect.
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