Powering the future of healthcare.
MDHelpTek helps healthcare professionals simplify and maintain Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act (HIPAA) compliance, protecting sensitive health data. Guiding you through each HIPAA rule to minimize the risk of penalties. We identify potential risks with timely assessments and address them to ensure your system meets HIPAA standards.
Our simple and effective policies provide convenience for your staff, making it easier for them to understand and handle patient data securely. We keep you informed about HIPAA requirements, assisting you in developing a strong market position and ensuring better security for patient information.
Securing protected health information (PHI) when your employees work remotely, providing encrypted connections to protect your sensitive data.
Tracking HIPAA compliance of third-party vendors by thoroughly evaluating vendors' data and checking their security policies.
Providing you with secure video platforms, encrypted data storage, giving access after verifying patients’ identities. Making data inaccessible to hackers and unauthorized people.
Applying the latest patches and security updates, keeping your software, applications, and operating systems updated. Ensuring the highest level of protection for your PHI.
Reducing the administrative burden, enabling medical practitioners to manage their responsibilities effectively.
Providing you with one unified system, ensuring that all your healthcare departments align with HIPAA compliance.
MDhelptek offers you customized solutions, meeting the specific requirements of your healthcare organization. Improve workflow, especially in compliance-sensitive areas like HIPAA.
Our managed services also helps you to stay HIPAA compliant, providing you consistent and sutructurued support, helping you to meet the necessary requirements to protect patient data.
Providing public and private cloud environment, maintaining HIPAA’s privacy and security rules. At the same time, supporting disaster recovery, maintaining data availbility and integrity.
Compliance with HIPAA compliance builds reputation of your healthcare organization and brings your company in their good books. Good reputation in the market enables you to achieve long terms success and generate more profit. Making your patients feel secure with you about their data is one of the main objectives of our services. Focusing on building relationships with customers and winning patients’ loyalty.
Word of Mouth Publicity
Patient Referrals
Strict adherence to HIPAA guidelines reduces the risks of legal penalties. HIPAA compliance protects your organization from contract breaches and demonstrate responsibility of regulatory bodies to safeguard patients’ information. HIPAA-compliant organizations ensure that patient data is only used for authorized purposes, mitigating the risk of misuse claims. Furthermore, compliance ensures that patient information is only shared appropriately, reducing the risk of legal action for illegal data sharing.
Minimizes Financial Loses
Ensuring Smooth Operations
We cover all aspects of HIPAA Compliance, ensuring your healthcare organization meets all security and privacy standards.
HIPAA stands for Health Insurance Portability Act. It is a set of federal regulations in the United States of America (USA), especially designed to protect sensitive PHI. For example, medical records, billing information, and insurance details. This law applies to the following types of organizations:
Protecting patients’ privacy is the main objective of HIPAA compliance. Its compliance ensures that healthcare organizations strictly follow HIPAA rules and safely handle patients’ sensitive medical data. Enforcement of HIPAA rules prevents unauthorized access, sharing, and data use. Helping healthcare organizations to focus more on core operations of their business, improving efficiency and outputs. Furthermore, improving quality of care and minimizing frauds and misuses of the healthcare system.
A complete examination of potential threats to the patient’s health information (PHI) by conducting a risk assessment. It helps healthcare organizations identify the vulnerabilities to security. It involves the steps of evaluating the processes of handling, storing, and sharing data within the organization. The following systematic approach helps healthcare organizations to achieve HIPPA compliance:
Partnering with a HIPAA compliance service provider is essential because the company manages all HIPAA requirements. At the same time, it ensures a healthcare organization aligns with the latest updated security policies. The company trains your staff, teaching them the ethics of handling patients’ data. Furthermore, they oversee audits and respond appropriately to HIPAA violations.
It is important to minimize the chances of data breaches, saving a healthcare organization from hefty fines. Furthermore, outsourcing HIPAA compliance saves your operational cost, reducing your workload. They help healthcare organizations in creating policies and procedures, conducting risk assessments, providing staff training services, and vendor management.
Healthcare organizations must review HIPAA policies and procedures once a year to ensure compliance with the latest laws and regulations. Regular reviews are also important for the compliance of revised business practices within the year. For example, the use of new technology or change in policies and procedures of working must meet regulatory standards. Moreover, regular checks ensure the security of patients’ data, keeping healthcare organizations more vigilant against data breaches.
Staff members who interact with patients’ data must have familiarity with HIPAA compliance and procedures. Healthcare organizations must fulfill the following training requirements:
Regular staff training keeps staff members aware of their responsibilities, enhancing productivity and minimizing the chances of data breaches.
Maintaining a centralized respiratory offers various benefits and is the industry’s best practice. It saves cost, time, and effort, eliminating the need to use pen and paper for documentation. Other than these, there are many more advantages. Here are some:
Identifying potential risks and resolving breaches is called incident management in HIPAA compliance. This process involves the following steps:
"We were drowning in work. Having a hard time keeping up, but the thought of hiring more full time employees didn’t seem feasible. We are a single physician practice and have one manager. We have a core group of employees that have been with us for a long time, but have been struggling with turnover every time we tried to hire an additional person. Additionally, there was a much larger financial burden because hiring internally would mean payroll taxes plus benefits for an additional person. Since joining MDHelpTek, our patients have been happy that we have been able to get things done much quicker.
