HIPAA Compliance and Records Management
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Date of implementation: |
August 1996 |
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Regulatory authority: |
Health and Human Services Office of Civil Rights |
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Industries affected: |
Health care and health care service organizations |
Impact on an organization's records management practices:
Requires Covered Entities to make reasonable efforts to preserve Protected Health Information, while also limiting access to such information through appropriate administrative, technical and physical safeguards.
How Vanguard Archives helps you maintain compliance:
Vanguard a) provides you with a Business Associates Agreement and ensures that any subcontractors used by Vanguard are bound by the same terms, b) has appropriate measures in place to protect information against accidental loss or unauthorized destruction, c) has written operating procedures which strictly limit access to Protected Health Information through appropriate administrative, technical and physical safeguards, and d) has a written policy to notify you of any security incident of which it becomes aware.
