Workplace Benefits LLC (dba Help Horizons) submits this statement of policy regarding HIPAA regulations and obligations. While HIPAA compliance is in part dependent on technology, HIPAA compliance is an overall organizational obligation that focuses on your procedural standards and procedural integrity. Therefore, HIPAA compliance for software requires a combination of secure/private technology and compliant business practices. Help Horizons provides clients with a software tool that is HIPAA compliant from a technology standpoint as detailed below. However, Help Horizons technology is only half of the inquiry ? how client users use Help Horizons software within their own organization must also be addressed.
Help Horizons technology, security, and privacy policies comply with HIPAA standards, such as encryption (SSL), system-user identifiers (logins, passwords), multiple user access levels, high-end physical server security, nightly backups, strong privacy policies (not sharing information with anyone unless you direct us to), timed log out, strong internal policies (having employees sign strong privacy agreements), and much more. Each "Covered Entity" must make its own determination of the system use and its overall impact on business practices.
Workplace Benefits, LLC HIPAA Compliance FAQ
The Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act became law in August 1996. Known as HIPAA, it was designed to set in motion a series of widespread measures focusing on simplifying the processing and distribution of medical information, improving the portability of health Insurance, giving patients access to medical information, and protecting patient data that is stored, processed, or transmitted across public networks.
A Web Site that is "HIPAA-compliant" is one that provides the physical and technological security measures required to ensure that any patient information, physician-patient correspondence and other sensitive information remains secure, confidential and unable to be digitally intercepted or otherwise accessed by outside parties. In short, a "HIPPA-compliant" Web Site means all required steps have been taken to keep private information private - It's a "safe" Web Site.
All of our professionals are qualified practitioners - an independent firm has verified their credentials. To find out more about them, read their Directory entries and "brochures" located on the Web site.
We've taken some of the guesswork out of making a choice by listing only those professionals who are qualified to deliver mental health services based on training and licensure. From here, the choice is up to you!
Perhaps the best way to find out is to submit a question for "E-mmediate" response and see if the professional who responds is helpful. We also give you several ways to search our Directory for a professional who will match your needs. Simply select a professional from the Directory and make up your mind on the basis of your own experience with that individual.
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