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HIPAA Compliance

Trust and Passion

HIPAA Compliance

The 1996 Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act is one of the most convoluted and difficult to grasp pieces of legislation in a century. Its enforcement is likely the most relevant bit to any Dental practitioner.
Yet, at the end of the day there’s no such thing as Johnny the HIPAA agent who’s going to knock on your door and hand you a ticket for not protecting patients’ health information. As a result most practices pay little to no attention to HIPAA compliance as it relates to technology. The reality of the matter is, HIPAA isn’t something you’re going to feel until after you’re caught out in the open when you suffered a breach. Only then, when the prosecutor’s pen is bearing down on your file is it going to suddenly become painfully relevant to your practice. HIPAA compliance means when it hits the fan that you are far less likely to be held directly responsible for a breach of protected health information when a hacker, natural disaster, robbery, accidental dispersal of PHI etc occurs. 
Achieving HIPAA compliance is a process requiring the involvement of your IT provider and their experience with developing emergency response plans, building a security infrastructure to protect data and providing the training and educational materials to you and your employees to help prevent an accidental discharge of PHI and the resulting crisis that will consume your business.60% of dental practices that sustain a breach of PHI are out of business within two years of the legal proceedings that follow. Don’t fall victim to the naivete associated with disregarding HIPAA compliance as an investment vs just another expense.Dental HiTech partners with The Compliance Group, the industry leaders in provision of HIPAA compliance services. When combining the documentation and legal portions of the process with the security and technological requirements for compliance, Dental HiTech and The Compliance Group have what it takes to protect your practice from a breach and so many of the consequences that threaten to rip your livelihood asunder if the wrong patient’s data ends up on the dark web. You might even be surprised to know how affordable HIPAA compliance really is. Dental HiTech’s partnership with the compliance group means we can offer these services at a deeply competitive rate and we bring all of the latest technological tools to help you protect your patients and your practice.    
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