HIPAA Tips to Keep Your Healthcare Business from Getting Fined

Since its legislation over twenty years ago, the Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act (HIPAA) has received both positive and negative comments. The negative aspect has mostly involved the genuine danger of data breaches. Information that‘s readily available online shows that hacking makes up 23% of HIPAA data breaches.

Hiring healthcare workers who will know when to release information and when to withhold data has also been a big challenge.

The positive aspect is that you can keep your health insurance if you move from one employer to another and sharing of information between medical practitioners is easier. A large percentage of people agree that the positives outweigh the negatives. That is why the law was enacted and is now vigorously enforced.

If you are in the healthcare business, you need to avoid fines that can run up to $1.5 million per violation in a year. Employee training will help your business a great deal in this regard.

Usually security breach does not involve the physician, however as the owner of a medical practice, hospital, urgent care center, pharmacy or any other institution, it is you on the line for serious penalties.  The cost of being proactive with training of your staff far outweighs the substantial risk to you.

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HIPAA Tips to Keep Your Healthcare Business from Getting Fined