HIPAA Business Associate Guide
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This informative,
quick reference guide to what business associates must know to attract and
keep business relationships with health care providers and health plans that
involve the use or disclosure of individually identifiable health information.
This book will be an invaluable tool for accountants, attorneys, billing services,
claims processing companies, computer vendors, consulting services, copy services,
destruction services, management services, medical marketers, medical record
storage companies, third party administrators, transcription services, and
many other who perform services for covered entities—health plans, health
care providers, and health care clearinghouses.
Highlights
of What You Get
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Overview
of HIPAA and the HHS Security and Privacy Regulations so you know what your
clients must do to comply and how you might help them do so.
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Who
are business associates?
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Requirements
for business associate contracts.
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How
to set up a security system to protect your client’s health information.
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How
to select reasonable and appropriate security measures as required by business
associate contracts.
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How
to implement reasonable and appropriate safeguards.
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Business
associate compliance checklist.
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Disk
containing a sample business associate contract, a chain of trust partner
agreement, and other policies to help satisfy your clients that you are
appropriately safeguarding their information such as a security policy,
e-mail policy, sanction policy, personnel security policy, access policy,
and the like.