HIPAA, the Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act of 1996, is revolutionizing healthcare information management. Any organization that electronically stores or transmits patient information must take enterprise-wide steps to adhere to HIPAA’s sweeping privacy, security and transactions standards.
Offshore Medical Billing considers the HIPAA regulations a call to revolutionize its overall processes and aggressively move towards a more secure deployment of electronically transmitted healthcare information. By adopting a best practices approach to privacy and security, we earn the confidence of our clients.
Offshore Medical Billing has always been highly conscious of handling sensitive client and patient information with the utmost confidentiality. We are committed to delivering services and products that enable our clients to meet the requirements of HIPAA. Our industry knowledge and integrated internal business processes position us to help our clients address the challenges of HIPAA while meeting their long-term and financial goals.
❖ A HIPAA Confidentiality Agreement is signed by all employees.
❖ Entry to the floor is controlled by Bio-metric access devices.
❖ Mandate for all employees to carry their designated photo ID inside the office.
❖ A network mapped workstation with unique login ID assigned to each employee.
❖ Access to internet, personal emails, and printers are fully restricted on the floor.
❖ All storage & mass media device ports disabled on all the systems.
❖ Client data access is restricted to team members based on their project.
❖ SSL encrypted security setup for all data access and transfers.
❖ Scheduled anti-virus checks and updates run on all systems.
❖ CCTV cameras deployed to monitor the entire premises.
❖ Production floor access is restricted to Visitors.
❖ Campus is safeguarded by security personnel 24/7.