HIPAA Compliance

The HIPAA Privacy Rule (Standards for Privacy of Individually Identifiable Health Information) provides the first national standards for protecting the privacy of health information. The Privacy Rule regulates how certain entities, called covered entities, use and disclose certain individually identifiable health information, called protected health information (PHI). PHI is individually identifiable health information that is transmitted or maintained in any form or medium

MedLead Solutions recognizes the importance and the need to respect Personal health Information and being an active compliant member in the healthcare industry have undertaken a series of active safeguard measures to ensure the safety of protected information

• Notifying entities regarding their privacy rights and how their PHI is used or disclosed
• Adopting and implementing internal privacy policies and procedures;
• Training employees to understand these privacy policies and procedures as appropriate for their functions within the covered entity;
• Designating individuals who are responsible for implementing privacy policies and procedures, and who will receive privacy-related complaints
• Establishing privacy requirements in contracts with business associates that perform covered functions
• Implementing appropriate administrative, technical, and physical safeguards to protect the privacy of health information
• Meeting obligations with respect to health consumers exercising their rights under the Privacy Rule

For a detailed summary of the policy guidelines, please refer to the following link

http://www.hhs.gov/ocr/privacysummary.pdf
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