Our Objectives

To Simplify Your HIPAA Path

The HIPAA law covers thousands of pages. As you would expect, Congress can never do something simply. As the law developed many people had input as to how it should work, what information should be protected and who should be covered, affected & compliant. The end result is at best a lot of reading material; at worse, a very confusing set of regulations and requirements.

ER.HIPAAps.com will simplify the process of making your healthcare plan HIPAA compliant. We have spent the hours reading, studying the law and putting together tools to help our clients and you on your path to HIPAA compliance.

• Most employers do not need to waste the money on a GAP analysis to see what procedures need to be changed. It is easier and cheaper just to alter current procedures and implement the new HIPAA methods. ER.HIPAAps.com has a simple tool to assist you in this process. With this tool you can analyze how you are using protected health information and identify where your office procedures need to be changed.
  
  
• Almost all healthcare plans and employer sponsors are affected in one way or the other by the new HIPAA regulations. HIPAA is the law. If your firm sponsors a group medical plan and there are 50 or more eligible employees, the medical plan is a covered entity and must be compliant. The employer sponsor is responsible for implementing HIPAA compliance. HIPAA is not an option. ER.HIPAAps.com will assist you on your path to compliance with easy to use tools.
  
  
• The easiest and cheapest method of implementing the new HIPAA regulations is a step by step process, beginning with recognizing how your firm is currently doing things and how procedures should be changed, then create a HIPAA Policies and Procedures manual. ER.HIPAAps.com has the tools you need to do this.
  
  
• Many of your current procedures are probably already HIPAA compliant; they just need to be documented. HIPAA requires documentation on a practice's privacy and security procedures and policies. ER.HIPAAps.com gives you the tools to provide this documentation and create a HIPAA Privacy Manual.
  
  
• Because of the complexity of HIPAA regulations and the fact that an employer is not a covered entity,  we approach the confidentiality of employee information with a broad stroke. Our process strongly suggests an employer apply the HIPAA requirements across the board when it comes to employee information. HIPAA does not cover employment information, it affects the confidentiality of employee healthcare and claims data. We feel this leaves too much room for error and confusion. Our approach is to consider all employee information as confidential. How do you explain to an employee that their information is protected in this circumstance but not when it comes to employment? How do you assure that the employees who handle the information will know the difference? How could you prove in court that the released information did not come from a medical application, but from an employment form when it is the same data? Why not apply the HIPAA regulations to all employee information and play it safe? Doing more than HIPAA requires is much better than doing less.


• Our approach looks at the the end of the process. If and when the day comes that your firm must demonstrate that your health plan is HIPAA compliant, what materials and documentation will you need to defend your level of HIPAA compliance? ER.HIPAAps.com will provide the documentation you need to defend against a complaint. And we will keep you updated on changes and interpretations of the HIPAA law.