Q: What does at HIPAAAudit.com do?
A: HIPAAAudit.com does on-site audits based on HIPAA requirements but not those requirements for the front office. Use a technology requirements of the back-office computers, and all technology within a medical office. This is not HIPAA coding issues, this is technology-based that affect a medical practice solely from the aspect of technology and HIPAA laws.
Q: How are audits conducted?
A: audits are conducted in a combination of on-site and off-site reviews. 95% of the audit is handled remotely. The remaining 5% physically reviewed on-site.
Q: What is HIPAA Delete Disk?
A: Delete Disk is a service, the actual software is open source software that writes zeros and ones over an entire hard drive. This renders the hard drive, unreadable and unrecoverable. Typically when you delete information from a hard drive, information is actually still on the hard drive. With the proper software, one can take a hard drive and recover everything that was "deleted". The delete disk handles this by overwriting all information with ones and zeros, so that if any attempted is made to recover information, it will have been overwritten so that there is nothing of use, that can be recovered. What is being sold with the delete this is not the software but the service of providing it on a disk.
Q: what is the HIPAA Monitor?
A: The HIPAA monitor is a service for an entire medical practice staff or hospital to keep track of the required annual training for all medical staff employees. That must occur. By hip or regulation, every staff member, must have annual training paper requirements as it pertains to technology in the office so that you do not have to worry about tracking any of this HIPAA Monitor keeps track of everything for you. The HIPAA monitor keeps track of who needs training, when they need training, and how their training went. Every possible scenario of training tracking is monitored for you. So that you can, without even having to think, handle the entire training process.
