HIPAA

The Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act is a complex piece of legislation that can affect every aspect of your business or clinic. Because it is both an incredibly broad yet vague law, it can feel like a challenge to know where to begin. That is why we broke down HIPAA compliance into its most basic steps.

The posts our HIPAA blog will contain everything you need to know about HIPAA and its constantly changing parts. Whether you are a privacy officer trying to bring your organization into compliance or are a nurse seeking advice, Accountable will provide you the answers.

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September 7, 2021

Do Vaccine Status Questions Violate HIPAA?

In light of the potential and emerging COVID-19 vaccination mandates, there has been a lot of chatter about HIPAA and whether vaccine-related questions do or do not constitute a violation of it. We'll answer all of those questions here!

August 30, 2021

How to Establish Secure HIPAA Compliance in the Cloud

How to Establish Secure HIPAA Compliance in the Cloud in 2021 - We are going to look at the essential components of a cloud hosting solution that are necessary to ensure HIPAA compliance.

August 6, 2021

The HIPAA Safe Harbor Act

The HIPAA Safe Harbor provision incentives cybersecurity by providing incentives to organizations to prove they took all reasonable precautions prior to a breach or loss of PHI.

August 10, 2021

How to be HIPAA Certified

We get a lot of questions about HIPAA Certification. Here are your answers.

October 14, 2021

Requirements to be HIPAA Compliant

HIPAA is a complex law with plenty of moving parts. Here we broke down the requirements for compliance.

August 18, 2021

Technical Safeguards of the Security Rule

Technical Safeguards can often be the most challenging regulation to understand and implement because it is a mix of addressable and required. We'll help explain both here.

October 14, 2021

Physical Safeguards of the Security Rule

In Part two of our series, we'll take a deep dive and examine physical safeguards of the Security rule.

October 14, 2021

Administrative Safeguards of the Security Rule

In this three part series, we'll take time to examine each of the Security Rule safeguards. In this post, we will look at a detailed look at the different types of administrative safeguards the HHS requires in order to comply with HIPAA.

October 14, 2021

HIPAA vs PCI

PCI DSS and HIPAA both aim to secure entirely different types of information while attempting to meet a similar need: data security.

October 14, 2021

Unintentional HIPAA Violations

You can have the proper policies and procedures in place, but all it takes is a little mistake and Bam! You've violated HIPAA. Here are a few violations.

October 14, 2021

Communication Platforms and HIPAA Compliance

In this blog, we’ll walk through 4 of the most popular business communication platforms on the market and how they can be used in a HIPAA-compliant manner.

July 26, 2021

The 18 PHI Identifiers

HIPAA has laid out a precise list of 18 different forms of protected health information. Below we will outline each different type and give examples of each so that you can have a better understanding of what exactly qualifies as PHI and what you can expect your healthcare provider to be doing with this information.

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