http://compliancy-group.com: has developed a compliance management solution that allows health businesses to fulfill the extensive administrative, technical, and physical safeguards required by federal and state regulations at an affordable cost.

1. Businesses must protect identifiable patient health information.
This includes all patient information that is created, maintained, sent, or received, by any health
care entity, subcontractors, business associates and suppliers. The regulations established by
The Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act (HIPAA) and The Health Information
Technology for Economic and Clinical Health (HITECH) act are very complex and compliance
has been a challenge for many medical practices and vendors, both small and large.
Fortunately, the Compliancy Group has developed a compliance management solution that
allows health businesses to fulfill the extensive administrative, technical, and physical safeguards
required by federal and state regulations at an affordable cost. The Guard, created by auditors
and security/privacy officers, is an easy to use, cloud based software, which allows small and
large organizations to record their compliance, and identify and resolve compliance gaps.
Following are some of the advantages The Guard provides that substantially reduce compliance
complications.

2. 1. Centralized Administration
The Guard allows covered entities (CE) and Business Associates (BA) to handle all HIPAA
administrative requirements in a centralized place. Patient information can be managed and
tracked, is readily accessible, and contains all required documentation including permissions,
restrictions, disclosures, personal representatives, and incidents. HIPAA requires organizations
to provide reports to individual requests and document the use and disclosure of all patient health
information. The Guard contains these necessary monitoring and reporting features.
2. Compliance Audits, Gaps, and Solutions
Preparing for external audits is mandatory under HITECH. The Guard helps businesses identify
gaps and provides solutions by having entities complete comprehensive questionnaires that
identify risk areas and illuminate current compliance versus required compliance. The Guard than
presents action plans and recommendations that will bring you into compliance. The entire
process is managed, prioritized, tracked, and documented by The Guard.

3. 3. Incident Tracking
Any unauthorized attempt or successful access, disclosure, use, alteration, destruction, or
interference with, is considered a security incident and visible, demonstrable evidence needs to
be rigorously tracked for HIPAA compliance. Organizations should track both internal incidents
and those incidents where the breach occurred as the result of dealings with a Business
Associate. Organizations must follow the law when a breach occurs requiring all stakeholders be
notified. The Guard incorporates a thorough system for tracking and conveying on incidents
4. Business Associates
HITECH requires compliance of Business Associates (BA). Covered Entitles need to be fully
informed of BA’s compliance initiatives and have a Business Associate Agreement (BAA)
between the parties that should be diligently managed and recorded. Any security incidents that
have occurred while protected health information is under the BA’s control needs to be monitored

4. and tracked. Along with the contracts from all BA’s, The Guard tracks the vendors, your BAA’s
with them, and any additional required documentation. A questionnaire is also supplied
requesting that vendors provide information about HIPAA compliance. The Guard tracks both the
questionnaire and answers.

5. 5. Training
The HIPAA Privacy Rule and Security Rule require training for the entity’s workforce to meet the
terms with compliance regulations. Compliance regulations have often been compromised by
employees stating that they were not trained correctly. Organizations are required to track all
training that has been conducted, and be aware when additional training is needed. The total
workforce’s knowledge of the entity’s rules and procedures should be verified, particularly when
there is a new employee, or when there is a change in policy or procedure.
The Guard helps organizations comply with all HIPAA and HITECH regulations and avoid severe
financial penalties, which continue daily until violations are remediated. There is an affordable
solution to the ongoing onus of HIPAA documentation, tracking, training, risk assessment, and
remediation requirements.
Business Address:
The Compliancy Group LLC.
55 Broadway Unit 684
Greenlawn, NY 11740
Contact No: 855 854 4722
Fax: 631 731 1643
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