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Automated HIPAA Compliance Management

As a medical practitioner you and your Business Associates are required to be HIPAA / HITECH Compliant NOW

egestalt If you are a medium to large medical provider, or a hospital or a health care clearing house, or provide health care services or pursue medical research, and deal with patient health information (PHI) directly or indirectly, through an intermediary, you are deemed to be a "Covered Entity" (CE) or a Business Associate (BA) under the HIPAA/HITECH Regulations. Your institution is required to achieve and maintain security and compliance with the regulations set forth in both the HIPAA and the HITECH Acts.

If your challenges are:

How do I prepare for the HIPAA/HITECH Audit from the Office of the Civil Rights as it is now mandatory for "covered entities including their Business Associates" that process, store or handle personal health information?
How do I manage the High costs of the compliance process and on-going sustainability?
Where do I find the most cost-effective solution?
Do we have the requisite Information Technology skills to manage this compliance?
Keeping focused on the core profession without compliance processes affecting the business?

Federal Grants Opportunity through HITECH

With the introduction of HITECH as part of the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act of 2009, generous federal grants have been made available to promote rapid adoption of Electronic Medical Record keeping (EMR).

Implications of non-compliance

Along with incentives come significantly increased criminal penalties for non-compliance. It could be in millions of dollars! These penalties are not directed only at the healthcare entity, but also at the individual owners, employees and business associates of any covered entity.

Your state's Attorney General can and may investigate and prosecute. Fines have been increased dramatically and, yes, one can even get imprisoned.

HIPAA/HITECH Security and Compliance made easy for Medical Providers: Covered Entities (CE´s) and Business Associates (BA´s)

egestalt With a growing reliance on information technology in the Healthcare Industry and the adoption of electronic medical records (EMR), it is crucial to ensure the safe handling of sensitive data. Additionally, the passage of the HITECH Act (part of the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act of 2009) has increased the criminal penalties associated with HIPAA not only to covered entities but to individual employees of covered entities and business associates. This renewed focus on HIPAA makes it even more important for healthcare organizations to ensure appropriate controls and safeguards have been implemented to prevent unauthorized access and disclosure of sensitive patient data.

What can automated SecureGRC HIPAA Compliance Management solution do for you?

Continuous Security and Compliance with Real-time dashboards
Do it once - Multiple Regulation Harmonization
Configurable citation and policy based Risk Model with real-time risk status
Ready-to-use pre-packaged content—policies, best practices, assessment Questions, with the ability to fully and quickly customize
Completely cloud-based service with no hardware or software investments required
Completely customizable to the Business needs
Extensive Reports—risk reports and compliance reports on demand
Single and centralized repository for all compliance related evidence
Integrated External BA and Vendor management
Easy plug in if you also need PCI-DSS compliance
Simple to implement and easy to use
Compliance activity email reminders
Exclusive, customer instance of SecureGRC which is security hardened

Why SecureGRC 11 makes a difference?

SecureGRC™ is a world-leading, multiple award winning cloud based automated IT Security and Compliance management solution for all businesses, including small and medium businesses. SecureGRC™ includes all security and IT-GRC functions required to be compliant with easy to adopt compliance management framework with ready to use frameworks, leading edge context based inference engines, most advanced alert processing and easy to use logging and monitoring solution.

SecureGRCTM is,

The FIRST true cloud-based Security and IT-GRC
The ONLY 100% channel focused organization
The ONLY multi-tenant solution
The ONLY single scalable solution with a GUI to scale from single user to enterprise
The ONLY product with built in best practices, policy and procedure templates (and for FREE)
A fraction of the PRICE of our competition
And sold exclusively through CHANNEL PARTNERS
And many more…

SecureGRCTMprovides,

• Continuous Security and Compliance with Real-time dashboards
• A simple, cost-effective, easy-to-use, IT security and compliance management solution to help you understand and gain control over your enterprise wide HIPAA/HITECH security and compliance requirements
• Constantly kept up to date with the latest versions and revisions
• Delivered from the Cloud delivery that means no hardware or software investments for you,
• Fast on implementation, no support or backup requirements and the assurance that your compliance solution is future-proof
• HIPAA & HITECH support is built-in, easily extended, and automatically kept up to date.
• All data is stored in a SaS 70 Type II secure Data Centre and NO electronic records information is removed from a client site.
• Simplifies the complex and time consuming process of getting into and maintaining Security and Compliance

Just start with question number 1, then 2. It´s that simple. Once you have made your first pass with inputs from multiple departments, our unique risk calculator will help prioritize the areas you need to focus on first. With our built in "Best Practices" library, we explain how to resolve each and every open issue with a common sense approaches.

Assessment Review

egestalt Once the assessment is complete through a pro-cess of assessment, your channel partner/Auditor would review the answers and make suggestions on how to resolve the remaining open issues. SecureGRC 11 has suggested ways of solving the problem or best practices. The automated wizard walks you through providing references to regulations, Guidance, best practice, implementation briefs, Policies and procedures, and service provider instructions, helping you with quick review of the statement of assessment, attaching evidences as one goes about assessing the compliance status. It provides an overall Risk status through graphs, progress of the assessment, compliance and risk status and overall progress.

Reports on compliance

SecureGRC offers a number of reports that quickly provide information on the assessment status relating to different users, risk levels based on the assessments, all user quarterly summary, etc.

As part of the assessment process SecureGRC will identify minimal specific areas within IT that the organization will need to implement.—Encryption, Unified Threat Management Firewall, Virus protection, Secure Back up, Simple Access control etc.

Quote from a Covered Entity

Says Dr. Kellner, a licensed psychologist and trained psychoanalyst with over 10 years of experience, of Mount Kisco, NY, "I have been practicing for over 10 years and never thought I had any reason to be HIPAA compliant. After all, I have a private practice, I'm, not a hospital. But I attended a webinar by eGestalt on their product called SecureGRC SB. I quickly realized that I had several areas of exposure regarding my patient's information. So I tried the SecureGRC SB program, as it was only $750 and was easy to use."

"I was really surprised in the number of areas that I was exposed, says Dr. Kellner. "Using the program I quickly identified and fixed the problems. I am now requiring all of my Business Associates to use this program to help protect my practice. I know I would never get audited, that was not my concern. I just wanted to make sure I was doing the right things to protect my patient's privacy and this was an inexpensive and low risk approach" Dr. Ari J. Kellner, Mount Kisco, NY

Managed Compliance Providers make your compliance process easy

SecureGRC is delivered by a channel of highly trained eGestalt Managed Compliance Providers who quickly and professionally implement this automated solution and help you quickly learn to take rapid action to resolve any processes or systems that are out of compliance.

A simple 5 step approach in becoming HIPAA/ HITECH compliant

A Step-by Step Approach for your enterprise to Comply with the latest HIPAA & HITECH Regulations … At your own Pace… with help from your friendly channel partner!

1.		Participate in Cloud-based Self-Assessment Survey – Once you have signed up with eGestalt SecureGRC SB, you will be given access to our cloud-based self-assessment survey. Login and answer a small number of questions that cover topics such as Privacy, Security and Procedures. While undertaking the survey you will have complete access to extensive online help, best practices that makes answering questions easy even though you may not be an IT or a HIPAA / HITECH expert! As you complete the survey, the software analyses your responses and gathers your strong (and weak) practice segments. You will have a complete snapshot of your compliance and risk status for your business, online, anytime.
2.		Upload Compliance Documents into your Secure Online Repository - As you go through the assessment, you may be asked to attach evidence, in the form of policies or procedures. If you don't have them, don't worry, we will supply you with samples at no charge. If you have collected compliance documents from your business associates (BA's) or other subcontractors, you will be prompted to upload them into the Secure GRC SB document repository. These will be logged into your compliance documentation as proof of your vendors' HIPAA and HITECH compliance.
3.		Run Risk and compliance report to generate Action Roadmap – Once you have completed the survey / questionnaire, hit "RUN" to generate an action roadmap for your practice. This roadmap will list all of your "to do's" to achieve HIPAA and HITECH compliance. Urgent matters are highlighted in red, and a suggested course of action is explained in detail. You will have the ability to generate a comprehensive compliance and risk report for your practice anytime! We will schedule a live one-on-one phone call to explain any open questions, and provide assistance on how to resolve these issues.
4.		Complete your Compliance Roadmap Action items – Attack the do-do items at your own pace, remembering that completing this compliance report is required for ARRA funding distribution. If at any point during the process you encounter difficulties, please contact our representative for assistance. This may include process / procedure modifications within your practice, personnel adjustments, training, and / or hardware / software upgrades.
5.		Achieve & prove HIPAA / HITECH compliance – Congratulations! Your practice is now in compliance with current HIPAA and HITECH regulations! Print the HIPAA Report and keep in a prominent location within your office. When applying for ARRA stimulus funding, this report will be required as part of the application process. Access to all the attached evidence is just a mouse click away.