Covered entities and business associates should be well-aware of the OCR HIPAA audit program, particularly when Phase2 has already been in place for several months now. More organizations are electing for cloud computing options, and may even start to implement...
The HIPAA privacy & security rule requires covered entities, including health care providers and health plans, and their business associates to conduct an accurate and thorough assessment of the potential risks and vulnerabilities to the confidentiality, integrity...
For the first time, the office of civil rights (“OCR”) penalized a covered entity for failure to implement audit procedures to review, modify, and/or terminate users’ right of access. More than 100,000 individuals had their electronic protected Heath Information...
FAIRFIELD, California. – March 2, 2017 – Telegenisys announced today that its operations have been audited for and received certifications for ISO 9001:2015 and ISO 27001:2005 and HIPAA compliance. Telegenisys continuously monitors, evaluates and updates the quality...
Recently a life insurance company that failed to safeguard patient health data received a penalty of $2.2 million by U.S. department of Health and Human services. Ref. As per the report, pen drive containing protected health information was stolen from it department....
Fairfield, CA – Over the past decade, Telegenisys has verified the correctness of over ten million pages of healthcare records to ensure that the specialists employed by clients have exactly the right information on hand to properly handle each case. This has been...
Health Insurance portability and accountability or HIPAA act was introduced in 1996 with the vision of guaranteeing complete confidentiality of health-related data of patients from all over America. The legislation was introduced after repeated requests from the...
Telegenisys Data Center Audited for HIPAA Certification Fairfield, CA: January 27th, 2015 – Telegenisys Inc. is committed to securing client data to the highest standards. Towards this goal of security assurance Telegenisys Data Operations Center was audited for...
HIPAA Release of Information form The HIPAA release of information under is a form of protection for the patient to decide for himself how and what information regarding their personal health is released to a party not directly involved with their healthcare or...
HIPAA business associate agreement The HIPAA Business Associate Agreement is a provision that allows those not directly employed by a healthcare provider or biller access protected healthcare information. Such an agreement often occurs when a third party is involved...
