Rest easy knowing that your healthcare business is HIPAA compliant.
Why choose Techumen for HIPAA audit services?
Whether you’re about to undergo an audit or want to maintain compliance, Techumen provides industry-leading healthcare security and privacy compliance expertise.
Our team ensures your administrative, physical and technical controls are up to date and meet HIPAA standards.
Partner with Techumen and benefit from a complete HIPAA security risk assessment that helps your organization maintain confidentiality integrity.
Work with 20+ year industry veterans to rapidly become HIPAA-compliant and maximize your reimbursement this year.
Work with Techumen and rest assured that you’re getting a risk assessment for HIPAA that has proven successful 100% of the time.
Get 1-to-1 Mapping of All 120+ HIPAA Clauses
The Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) has over 120 clauses in its omnibus rule. Don’t let your business get lost trying to address them all individually.
Instead, leverage our expertise and risk analysis to discover gaps, analyze them and recommend solutions that ensure total compliance with HIPAA audit requirements.
We use simplified threat-level identification methodologies for our audits. These methods keep you updated on what is required to guarantee total compliance during a HIPAA audit protocol.
Deploy Checklists and Consulting Tailored to Meet Your Unique Needs
The healthcare industry is large and expansive, and as such, each specific sub-sector has its own unique needs and requirements.
We understand that and have worked with various healthcare businesses to develop sector-specific checklists that will help you meet your unique sector requirements.
We can develop a modified HIPAA compliance audit checklist for:
In the past, we custom-built an individual HIPAA audit checklist for these sub-sectors that supports a fast and successful audit process.
We take the time to assess your specific technology and processes and then provide tailored recommendations.
Rest Easy Knowing That Your Business Is HIPAA Compliant
The Office for Civil Rights (OCR) mandates and enforces specific electronic protected health information (PHI) regulations that, if not obeyed, can lead to audits, fines, or worse.
In addition, systems that are vulnerable to data breaches are not only out of compliance with the HIPAA regulations, but could also see massive revenue declines as the result of catastrophic data loss.
Our HIPAA audit consulting services will empower your business to identify these potential areas of vulnerability – both in your internal systems as well as potential vulnerabilities that could be exploited through gaps in your business associates’ systems – and work to address them.
With our support, you can avoid working with business partners that won’t be able to guarantee security, while also preventing audits or passing them as they occur.
We support covered entities and business associates through the audit report process.
Leverage Experienced Policy Writing to Support HIPAA Compliance
During our process of discovery, gap analysis, and recommendations, we’ll also supplement your policy with new, HIPAA-compliant policies, free of charge.
Get an all-in-one service with Techumen as we rapidly and affordably analyze your technical, physical, and administrative processes and work to remedy vulnerabilities and gaps in short order.
Maintain compliance long-term with a robust program in place that informs future hires and current processes.
Never Fail a HIPAA Audit
Get support with the six essential HIPAA compliance checks:
We’ll also support your business so that it’s able to meet its HIPAA audit log requirements, HIPAA security rule requirements, breach notification rules, and various other components.
Get consulting services that will empower your company to protect access to PHI as well as permanently maintain total HIPAA compliance.
Enjoy proven consulting services that develop total compliance for audit success.
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Work with experts that have deep industry knowledge and expertise across a variety of sub-sectors.
Rely on a team of trained experts that are intimately familiar with the omnibus HIPAA rules and know how to quickly assess, prioritize, and address the gaps in your system.
Don’t settle for a one-size-fits-all approach. Instead, let Techumen develop a tailored checklist and plan designed to fit your business’s and sector’s unique needs.
All of our clients have passed their HHS/CMS audits.
Our history of proven success has helped us develop several models and methodologies that ensure you get fast-acting solutions to your HIPAA audit needs.
Our experience has led us to develop systems and processes that will quickly and thoroughly patch your technical, administrative, and physical policies so they are compliant.
A HIPAA desk audit will examine privacy, security, and breach notification required safeguards.
That’s a lot to consider – and several potential areas that might get overlooked.
Trust Techumen to provide fast, reliable, and affordable solutions that enable total HIPAA audit compliance, including:
We maintain constant communication with you as we build compliance, immediately relaying information on significant fixes.
Our services are always tailored to your needs and resources and will always communicate them plainly, cutting through regulatory jargon.
We understand that an audit can be stress-inducing and are there to support you 100% of the way.
There are three ways to have the federal government, specifically the Office for Civil Rights, audit your organization’s HIPAA Compliance:
If your organization is audited, you must follow all HIPAA audit requirements in order to adhere to the HIPAA audit checklist.
The US Department of Health and Human Services’ (HHS) Office for Civil Rights (OCR) is the government body that enforces the Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act (HIPAA) laws. Their HIPAA Audit Program (to use its full name, The HIPAA Privacy, Security, and Breach Notification Audit Program) examines both HIPAA Covered Entities and Business Associates to assess their compliance with the HIPAA Privacy Rule, Security Rule, and Breach Notification Rule.
Health care organizations, depending on the circumstances, face fines of up to $1.5 million for each violation, in addition to the bad publicity of a HIPAA Audit Report. Between the initial document requests OCR will make, the follow-up questions they’ll ask, and the evidence they’ll seek, it can easily be several hundred items, and many hours of effort, to submit documents that address each point. At this point, investing in a qualified HIPAA security risk assessment can save a company thousands if not millions of dollars and massive headaches down the road.
To prepare for a HIPAA Audit, on the part of OCR or of a business partner, obtain your organization’s:
(This last item may seem deceptively simple. A HIPAA Documentation Policy should describe where to keep your HIPAA Documents, how long to keep them, when and how to review and update them, and who can view them. This should address not just your policies, but all the other documents these policies produce, such as your organization’s HIPAA audit logs retention requirements, risk management decisions, audit reports from your internal evaluations, and security decisions and their outcomes.)
For each of these HIPAA Audit Requirements, you should determine:
“Reasonable and appropriate” is a judgement call, but some things are self-evident. If your organization’s HIPAA audit trail requirements are “keep logs for 24 hours”, that’s not reasonable nor appropriate.
If your Password Policy states “users must have a password”, that isn’t either. The size and budget of your organization does effect what’s “reasonable”; that which is “reasonable” for Kaiser Permanente is not going to be reasonable for a solo physician practice, and vice versa.
Your organization’s HIPAA audit log retention requirements should be somewhere in between those two. In practice, most organizations without Kaiser’s budget keep HIPAA audit logs for as long as disk space is available, then overwrite the oldest events first.
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