HIPAA Plain & Simple: A Healthcare Professionals Guide to Achieve HIPAA and HITECH Compliance

Ensure your practice is compliant with the updated HIPAA privacy and security regulations that accompany ARRA and the Health Information Technology for Economic Clinical Health Act (HITECH) that started to go into effect February 2010. Stepped up enforcement includes new breach notification laws with monetary penalties if not enforced, stricter accountability for business associates, and use and disclosure of Protected Health Information (PHI). HIPAA Plain & Simple eases your administrative burden by explaining the increased importance the federal government is placing on PHI so that you can conduct your own risk assessment and ensure your physician office staff is appropriately trained.

Updated from the bestselling 2003 first edition, this invaluable resource includes:

-The popular "What to Do" and "How to Do It" section
-Sample business associate agreements
-Graphics and charts; timelines, checklists and forms
-Health IT company profiles and 12-month HIPAA training ideas
-Crisis communication management guidelines
-A new foreword by Louis W. Sullivan, MD, president emeritus, Morehouse School of Medicine, former secretary, U.S. Department of Health and Human Services
-An additional foreword by David Brailer, MD, the nation's first National Coordinator for Health Information Technology