Transactions, Security and Privacy Services

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. Essentially, HIPAA requires healthcare entities to "re-architect" how they capture, store, and transmit health data and to ensure that they protect personal health information and the privacy rights of patients.

In response, Phoenix Health Systems created HIPAAdvisory.com, the nations leading industry resource for HIPAA information. The site, combined with our other interactive HIPAA technology products; HIPAAlert, HIPAAdvisory.com, and HIPAAlive are relied upon by over 20,000 healthcare professionals for quality HIPAA information.

Per Modern Healthcare magazine, HIPAAdvisory.com is the "HIPAA hub of the Internet." Virtually every major industry publication and HIPAA support organization (including HHS and CMS staff) has endorsed and utilized our HIPAA knowledge resources.

How can your organization respond cost-effectively?

In addition to the public services provided on HIPAAdvisory.com, Phoenix Health Systems' HIPAA Solutions Team provides authoritative HIPAA support to ensure the success of your HIPAA initiatives, and to help you realize HIPAA's promise of long-term cost savings and efficiencies.Our staff will help you implement a prioritized compliance plan that is sensitive to your enterprise's objectives, budgets, operational realities and strategic goals. Our mission: Help HIPAA make everyone a winner --the patient, through better privacy and security; and the provider, through increased EDI efficiencies and more secure information systems.

Our HIPAA Solutions:

  • HIPAA Impact Analysis (Readiness Assessment): An assessment of the organization's existing information systems; usage of electronic transactions and code sets; privacy-related policies, procedures, uses, disclosures and other practices; business associate and covered entity relationships; and security policies, practices and mechanisms as they relate to HIPAA and related state requirements. Phoenix' approach relies on standardized questionnaires, interviews, risk analysis and decision-making tools mapped to each HIPAA regulation.

  • HIPAA Planning for Implementation: A comprehensive HIPAA compliance project planning effort to detail and schedule the implementation and system remediation actions required to successfully act on the impact analysis findings.

  • HIPAA Implementation Project Management and Support: Development and implementation of privacy and security policies and procedures; process changes; system improvements; technical, physical and administrative security enhancements.

  • HIPAA Compliance Training: Development of ongoing role-appropriate training programs for all staff, as required by HIPAA's privacy and security rules. Covers new policies and procedures, staff HIPAA obligations,and needed cultural change. Phoenix' on-site and online training programs (see our HealthcareEdu web-based program!) rely on standardized training and change-management methodologies.

  • HIPAA Services for Small or Rural Hospitals: This innovative program enables organizations with minimal budgets to meet their HIPAA needs, using a mix of affordable HIPAA "essential resources" comprised of education, self-deployable HIPAA compliance tools, and "minimum necessary" consulting services.

  • HIPAA Audits: A due-diligence comparison, after implementation, of actual business practices compared to revised policies and procedures and the HIPAA regulations.

Phoenix Health Systems offers the requisite blend of HIPAA consulting expertise, proven HIPAA methodologies, cost effective solutions and outstanding attention to quality and customer satisfaction. Our support will help you ensure that your operations maintain their necessary focus on organizational priorities without the burden of managing a complex and unfamiliar new implementation process. Most Phoenix services are fixed-fee priced, enabling clients to understand their compliance costs in advance and avoid cost overruns.

Phoenix Health Systems' HIPAA Partners

Regardless of claims, few firms can provide the depth of HIPAA capabilities that large provider enterprises need in order to be compliant. That is where Phoenix Health Systems' outstanding HIPAA security and legal partners come in. Together, Phoenix and our partners are a "HIPAAforce" to be reckoned with...and counted on.

To learn more about the process and benefits of Phoenix HIPAA solutions, please contact:

Phoenix Health Systems, Inc.
(301) 869-7300
info@phoenixhealth.com