HealthCheck services are designed to meet specific “client defined” analysis of their HIPAA compliance program. HealthCheck services provide an objective and professional approach to gain valuable insight.
Client Defined Analysis
In today’s expanding HIPAA compliance environment, staying on top of privacy and security regulations recently amended by the HITECH Act, updating policies and procedures, or conducting an annual audit can be daunting. In fact, many healthcare administrators and management explain that the duties of compliance are often given to those who already have core business responsibilities, causing even more strain on the effectiveness of the compliance program.
In response, HIPAA Analytics created the HIPAA HealthCheck service, an assessment designed to provide healthcare clients with the flexibility to define an examination of specific areas of concern within their compliance program. Every HealthCheck examination provides the client with -
- Compliance clarity and answers for the client organization
- Delivers actionable insight to remediate areas of concern
- Improves the compliance program with recommended best practices
- Provides assurances that the compliance program has received a review by an independent, subject matter expert
Performance and Insight
More than examining for deficiencies, HealthCheck services approach client examinations with a focus on analytics that provide rich insight into the compliance program. By digging deeper into the root cause of issues and uncovering business/compliance process patterns, HealthCheck helps validate client concerns, assess options and predict compliance performance.
Incremental Improvement
The science of risk management has taught us that compliance is not a one time effort, but a continuous process. Healthcare organizations seldom require a major overhaul of their compliance program, rather improving their program in well thought incremental steps. HealthCheck services are geared to delivering compliance guidance for incremental steps to improve client privacy and security performance.
HealthCheck Defined Services
Every defined client project begins with a client meeting to verify project focus and complete the readiness questionnaire. Next steps include initial scoping and statement of work. The formal process assists in ensuring that project expectations, such as tasks, milestones and deliverables are in sync with the fixed price project. Steps in the project include -
- Initial client meeting
- Define project focus
- Outline initial project scope, tasks, milestones and deliverables
- Statement of work reviewed and approved
- Begin compliance program review including, business process/compliance, policies and procedures, interviews, facility review, business associate impact and training and awareness review
- Submit interim report and remediation recommendations for review
- Submit final report
- Provide management presentation of final report
