Does it comply with all the new healthcare regulations, including HIPAA?
Medical Practice Solutions document management system is designed to conform to the HIPAA regulations as outlined in the US Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act of 1996. The act contains many elements dealing with a broad range of health related issues, including patient privacy and security standards. The standards and regulations pertaining to document management systems are specifically spelled out in the privacy regulations that were released to implement requirements of the administrative simplification section of HIPAA, requiring: • Standardization of electronic patient health, administrative and financial data. • Unique health identifiers for individuals, employers, health plans and health care providers. • Security standards protecting the confidentiality and integrity of “individually identifiable health information”, past, present and future.
