HIPAA in 24 Hours: Small Healthcare Entity HIPAA Manual [DOWNLOAD: PDF] (Digital)

by Roy Rada (Author)

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Description:
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The small provider can and should achieve HIPAA compliance easily. You may have non-standard claims denied and violating privacy can result in fines and prison terms. Now is the time to comply with the e-commerce and privacy requirements of HIPAA. The typical practice can achieve HIPAA compliance in 24 person hours. This time adds all the time spent by all the staff in the first year. This 26-page manual includes training essays, a notice of privacy practices, a spreadsheet to computer benefits of ecommerce, and virtually everything else you need to know -- forms, policies, procedures, spreadsheets, training material, audit tables, and contracts. The manual has been well received. It is comprehensive yet concise and provides a step-by-step recipe for compliance while being readable. By using this manual, small providers are taking the initiative to define the standard of care expected and are responding in the affirmative to their offer from the federal government to make HIPAA compliance practical.

Publisher comments :
Feedback on the manual from health care providers, lawyers, compliance officers, and others has been consistently positive. The general view is: What a relief to find something easy to implement. We have felt that this is what small practices needed.

Author comments :
I have written 200,000 word descriptions of HIPAA. However, what the small provider needs is a short, do-it-yourself cookbook, and so I combined my experience with many small providers and my knowledge of HIPAA into this manual.

Author bio:
Roy Rada has a B.A. from Yale Univ., a M.D. from Baylor College of Medicine, and a Ph.D. in Computer Science from Univ. Illinois. He has served as Editor of Index Medicus at the National Library of Medicine and Boeing Distinguished Professor of Software Engineering. For the past 3 years he had devoted himself exclusively to HIPAA in his consulting, teaching, and research and serves as a Professor of Health Care Information Systems at the University of Maryland. He is the founding Chair of the Health Information and Management Systems Society HIPAA Special Interest Group with over 1,000 members. His 6 HIPAA books have included the best-selling HIPAA books at Amazon.com. Roy lectures at many major meetings about HIPAA. He has trained US Air Force Privacy Officers, done a privacy gap analysis of a Blue Cross and Blue Shield organization, done security analyses for a hospital network, certified de-identification systems, developed HIPAA security training certification examinations, designed HIPAA translators, and served on the HIPAA advisory board of numerous organizations.

HIPAA in 24 Hours is a wonderful help. We use some of the forms and policies as written. The document availability in Word format helps. Implementation is going well. We had the all staff get together last Friday and that went well. We are now on the week 4 targets.
David Ostrow, P.T.
Ostrow and Associates, Physical Therapy and Wellness Centers
Exton, PA

HIPAA in 24 Hours is the best HIPAA manual possible. The information is just what is needed -- put in easy-to-read, understandable terms with great sample forms and other helpful aids. Get it now and you will be months ahead on your project. For the money you could not possibly go wrong. I recommend it to everyone with HIPAA concerns and all the students in my HIPAA Preparation courses find it by far the best resource out there.
Donna Rieck, R.N., M.H.A.
Des Moines, Iowa

HIPAA in 24 Hours looks very helpful.
Mary Barbone
Practice Manager
Colorado Cardiovascular Surgical Associates

HIPAA in 24 Hours was very helpful.
Nicholas Nossaman, M.D.
Family Practitioner
Denver, Colorado

I am following HIPAA in 24 Hours very closely and besides being highly readable, it is very, very helpful. So far I have just had to do some adapting because of our particular office situation. I am one of 6 therapists who jointly rent a suite of offices.
Teresa Gutierrez
Licensed Independent Social Worker (L.I.S.W.)
Cleveland, Ohio

I have no doubt that HIPAA in 24 Hours will help MANY of our small providers! I am doing trainings on almost a daily basis, and in fact, I recommended it to a group yesterday!
Kelly Ranvier, J.D.
Deputy Commissioner,
Department for Mental Health and Mental Retardation Services
State of Kentucky

I looked HIPAA in 24 Hours over and was very pleased at its contents, it is very user friendly and easy to follow.
F.K.
Healthcare Attorney
Los Angeles, California

Montana is mainly small private practices that need help but cannot afford the expensive consulting firms. We have combined our material with yours and have found it works great for small offices. We love your HIPAA in 24 Hours for the easy nature it is written in. This combination checklist designed for small offices can reduce the cost of compliance and ease the grief over HIPAA. We give your book to the office staff along with a pre-checklist. When they have finished the list, we do a complete checklist and confirm needed changes. Most offices require little remediation to make them compliant.
Brad Smith, RN, MCP
Montana -- Review

Product Description
Description:
NEW and UPDATED:
The small provider can and should achieve HIPAA compliance easily. You may have non-standard claims denied and violating privacy can result in fines and prison terms. Now is the time to comply with the e-commerce and privacy requirements of HIPAA. The typical practice can achieve HIPAA compliance in 24 person hours. This time adds all the time spent by all the staff in the first year. This 26-page manual includes training essays, a notice of privacy practices, a spreadsheet to computer benefits of ecommerce, and virtually everything else you need to know -- forms, policies, procedures, spreadsheets, training material, audit tables, and contracts. The manual has been well received. It is comprehensive yet concise and provides a step-by-step recipe for compliance while being readable. By using this manual, small providers are taking the initiative to define the standard of care expected and are responding in the affirmative to their offer from the federal government to make HIPAA compliance practical.

Publisher comments :
Feedback on the manual from health care providers, lawyers, compliance officers, and others has been consistently positive. The general view is: What a relief to find something easy to implement. We have felt that this is what small practices needed.

Author comments :
I have written 200,000 word descriptions of HIPAA. However, what the small provider needs is a short, do-it-yourself cookbook, and so I combined my experience with many small providers and my knowledge of HIPAA into this manual.

Author bio:
Roy Rada has a B.A. from Yale Univ., a M.D. from Baylor College of Medicine, and a Ph.D. in Computer Science from Univ. Illinois. He has served as Editor of Index Medicus at the National Library of Medicine and Boeing Distinguished Professor of Software Engineering. For the past 3 years he had devoted himself exclusively to HIPAA in his consulting, teaching, and research and serves as a Professor of Health Care Information Systems at the University of Maryland. He is the founding Chair of the Health Information and Management Systems Society HIPAA Special Interest Group with over 1,000 members. His 6 HIPAA books have included the best-selling HIPAA books at Amazon.com. Roy lectures at many major meetings about HIPAA. He has trained US Air Force Privacy Officers, done a privacy gap analysis of a Blue Cross and Blue Shield organization, done security analyses for a hospital network, certified de-identification systems, developed HIPAA security training certification examinations, designed HIPAA translators, and served on the HIPAA advisory board of numerous organizations.

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• Digital: 24 pages
• Publisher: HIPAA-IT LLC (January 13, 2003)
• Average Customer Review: 5.0 out of 5 stars See all reviews (4 customer reviews)
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7 of 7 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars HIPAA Information that it is not to late to read., May 15, 2003

By	Book a Day "brendaa" (Chicago, IL USA) - See all my reviews

This is a valuable overview of HIPAA compliance. It is helpful in organizing what needs to be done. It is useful for the HIPAA professional as well as a beginner. It clearly explains things that need to be done. Without reading book after book this explains it in a short document in terms that most can understand. If you need more detailed information you expand your resources and know what you are looking for. I believe most people even at this late date continue to be confused about HIPAA compliance.

7 of 7 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Finally!!, March 20, 2003

By A Customer

I have a very small healthcare practice and have been looking everywhere for a simple, inexpensive way to get the information and forms I need to comply with HIPAA.

Eureka, I've found it! This e-book includes specific text for policies and forms as well as guidelines for implementation. It has saved me many hours of work and is WELL worth the price!!

6 of 6 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Dr Joans favorite HIPAA manual, April 21, 2003

By	Dr Joan (USA) - See all my reviews

I'm so glad I bought HIPAA in 24 Hours. We could not have made the required HIPAA changes to our doctors' office without it - it even had all the forms! Great buy!