Book Summary:
The HIPAA Compliance Handbook is intended for HIPAA coordinators, project managers, privacy officers, compliance professionals, health care record managers and others who have the responsibility for implementing the HIPAA Administrative Simplification title. It contains easy-to-understand explanations of the legal and regulatory provisions as well as sample HIPAA-related policies procedures, agreements, logs and reports. The 2004 Handbook, which complements (not replaces) the three preceding HIPAA Compliance Handbooks, provides the following benefits: - Contains a methodology for performing a HIPAA compliance assessment, identifying the gaps, evaluating risks, implementing changes and monitoring results - Builds in-house understanding and expertise more quickly by shortening the HIPAA learning curb - Saves time by avoiding blind alleys - Allows readers to progress at their own pace. The Handbook is not intended to be legal advice. It is recommended that legal counsel be obtained to ensure a proper legal interpretation of the law itself and the regulations, as well as to ensure compliance with local, state and other federal laws. |