HIPAA Compliance Solutions

Posted By Steve Alder on Dec 7, 2023

If you conduct an Internet search for HIPAA compliance solutions, you will get thousands of results. Unfortunately most HIPAA compliance solutions being advertised provide a compliance service in only one or two areas of HIPAA. Few provide total solutions.

This is an important distinction to make. In order to be compliant with HIPAA, you have to be totally compliant. It may be commendable that you have HIPAA-compliant data storage, or HIPAA compliant channels of communication, but these are not total HIPAA compliance solutions.

It only takes one gap in your compliance efforts for a breach of PHI to occur. You could also be fined for failing to be totally HIPAA-compliant if you are audited by the Department of Health & Human Services (HHS). It is not necessarily the case that individual HIPAA compliance solutions are a waste of time and money, but they do not provide the total coverage you will need in order to be HIPAA compliant.

What Does Total HIPAA Compliance Consist Of?

This will depend on the nature of your business and whether it is classified as a Covered Entity, Business Associate or subcontractor. Large medical facilities that use, maintain and share PHI will likely be subject to a comprehensive selection of regulations from the following Acts of legislation:

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• The Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act (1996).
• The Privacy Rule (2000) and subsequent amendments.
• The Security Rule (2003) and subsequent amendments.
• The HIPAA Enforcement Rule (2006).
• The Health Information Technology for Economic and Clinical Health Act (2009).
• The American Recovery and Reinvestment Act (2009).
• The Omnibus Final Rule (2013).

In order to be HIPAA-compliant, it may be necessary to comply with all these rules, or just a few. This is why there are no “one-size-fits-all” total HIPAA compliance solutions and so many companies offering solutions to patch different elements of HIPAA compliancy.