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The ZYTX Wireless & Paperless Office
Software provides anytime, anywhere secure access
to patient records and has been designed with HIPAA
compliance in mind. It meets and exceeds the standards
required by HIPAA to ensure the most secure and private
environment for the management of clinical healthcare
information available today. We continue to stay abreast
of the changing government regulations to make sure
that the ZYTX platform continues to lead the industry
in compliance.
HIPAA is the acronym for the Health Insurance
Portability and Accountability Act of 1996. The Centers
for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) is responsible
for implementing various unrelated provisions of HIPAA.
In 1996, President Clinton signed
the Health Insurance Portability and Accountability
Act into law (public law 104-191). Originally called
the Kennedy-Kassebaum Act, the law was formed with
the general objectives to:
•Guarantee health insurance coverage
for all employees.
•Reduce health care fraud and abuse.
•Introduce and implement methods to simplify
the US health care system.
•Protect the health information of individuals.
From the perspective of healthcare or
business organizations, the most significant requirements
fall under the provision of Administrative Simplification.
These requirements will be phased in over the next
5-10 years, with required implementation of the first
regulation by October 2002. Administrative Simplification
is divided into four major areas, each of which contain
rules or standards that covered organizations and
their business associates must comply with:
Privacy Standards – The privacy rule
provides the first comprehensive federal protection
for the privacy of health information. The rule restricts
organizations that collect, maintain, or distribute
health information (in either electronic or paper
form) to a strict set of limitations on how that information
can be utilized and distributed. Organizations must
be compliant with the Privacy Standards by 4/14/2003
(168 days).
Security and Electronic Signature Standards
– The rule defines new security standards to protect
an individual’s health information, while also mandating
a new electronic signature standard for transmission
of standard HIPAA transactions.
Please contact
a professional representative at ZYTX for your free
HIPAA consultation.
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