HIPAA protects health insurance coverage for workers and their families when they change or lose their jobs. HIPAA also requires the establishment of national standards for electronic healthcare transactions and national identifiers for providers, health insurance plans, and employers besides addressing the security and privacy of health data. The standards are meant to improve the efficiency and effectiveness of the nation's healthcare system by encouraging the widespread use of electronic data interchange in the US healthcare system.
As a medical transcription company, Perfectscribe recognizes and is committed to help clients achieve HIPAA compliance within the timelines set forth by HIPAA regulations. The governing framework we have created is used for defining and managing the HIPAA initiatives.
All our transcriptions process dictations and reports on workstations, connected to the company’s private network. No floppy driver, disc drives etc are present on these workstations, which prevent the download, transmission or printing of information. Recordable media are strictly prohibited within the premises of the facility.
Our computer systems have active security; monitored 24 hours a day, 7 days a week, with automated and real time network intrusion detection.
Emergency Contingency plans are in effect to facilitate continuity of operations. Hard-copy documents related to clients / patients are disposed of with the shredding of the said documents.
This is just a brief cross-section of all the HIPAA guidelines that have been adopted as a part of our working processes. For more information you can contact us directly and learn more about our stringent data security and compliance procedures.