HIPAA in 24 Hours: Small Healthcare Entity HIPAA Manual

Description:
NEW and UPDATED:
The small provider can and should achieve HIPAA compliance easily. You may have non-standard claims denied and violating privacy can result in fines and prison terms. Now is the time to comply with the e-commerce and privacy requirements of HIPAA. The typical practice can achieve HIPAA compliance in 24 person hours. This time adds all the time spent by all the staff in the first year. This 26-page manual includes training essays, a notice of privacy practices, a spreadsheet to computer benefits of ecommerce, and virtually everything else you need to know -- forms, policies, procedures, spreadsheets, training material, audit tables, and contracts. The manual has been well received. It is comprehensive yet concise and provides a step-by-step recipe for compliance while being readable. By using this manual, small providers are taking the initiative to define the standard of care expected and are responding in the affirmative to their offer from the federal government to make HIPAA compliance practical.

Publisher comments :
Feedback on the manual from health care providers, lawyers, compliance officers, and others has been consistently positive. The general view is: What a relief to find something easy to implement. We have felt that this is what small practices needed.

Author comments :
I have written 200,000 word descriptions of HIPAA. However, what the small provider needs is a short, do-it-yourself cookbook, and so I combined my experience with many small providers and my knowledge of HIPAA into this manual.

Author bio:
Roy Rada has a B.A. from Yale Univ., a M.D. from Baylor College of Medicine, and a Ph.D. in Computer Science from Univ. Illinois. He has served as Editor of Index Medicus at the National Library of Medicine and Boeing Distinguished Professor of Software Engineering. For the past 3 years he had devoted himself exclusively to HIPAA in his consulting, teaching, and research and serves as a Professor of Health Care Information Systems at the University of Maryland. He is the founding Chair of the Health Information and Management Systems Society HIPAA Special Interest Group with over 1,000 members. His 6 HIPAA books have included the best-selling HIPAA books at Amazon.com. Roy lectures at many major meetings about HIPAA. He has trained US Air Force Privacy Officers, done a privacy gap analysis of a Blue Cross and Blue Shield organization, done security analyses for a hospital network, certified de-identification systems, developed HIPAA security training certification examinations, designed HIPAA translators, and served on the HIPAA advisory board of numerous organizations.