The Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act (HIPAA) Security Rule requires that covered entities and their business associates conduct a risk assessment to ensure they are compliant with HIPAA’s administrative, physical, and technical safeguards.
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This online HIPAA Security Gap Assessment is based on the audit protocols used by the Office of Civil Rights when it conducts HIPAA audits.
You and your staff can complete the assessment over any device connected to the Internet. There are no wrong answers.
The Security Gap Analysis Report shows how well your organization complies with HIPAA.
The Report offers a mitigation plan that presents steps to help you develop your HIPAA security policies and procedures.
This HIPAA security gap assessment is based on the federal law that requires you to protect the confidentiality, integrity and availability of records containing protected health information (PHI). Failure to do so can result in a fine assessed against your organization.
Each section in the gap analysis can be completed on any device, anywhere you are. Security questions guide you through the HIPAA security standards. Each question has its own drop down menu containing comprehensive HELP with extensive notes written in plain English!
For $295 your organization can save on the cost of an outside consultant by conducting your own HIPAA assessment. You simply answer the security questions and print out HIPAA security gap analysis that identifies the documentation you need to meet the requirements of the HIPAA Security Rule.
In addition to our expert customer service, through our unique partnership with Connecting Healthcare®, we can assist you with a wide-range of HIPAA needs - Implementation, annual audit review, privacy assessments, updated policies and procedures, and customized workforce training. Just Contact Us!
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The HIPAA Online Security Risk Assessment is designed with you in mind. You can fill out the survey anywhere, from your PC or mobile device.
Work is different today. Teams can be more collaborative and work together from many different locations. The Online Security Gap Assessment provides that mobile flexibility.
The HIPAA Security Rule requires Covered Entities and their Business Associates to evaluate the security risks and vulnerabilities in their computer systems and to implement policies and procedures to address those risks and vulnerabilities.
Completing this Online security gap assessment will help ensure that you have identified the required HIPAA security documentation that your organization needs.
Covers all sections of the HIPAA Security Rule and helps you identify every document the regulations require your practice to have. Let this website do the work for you.
Lets you add a complete inventory of the technologies you use in your organization so that you can better secure them. If you already have a technical inventory, you can upload it to a secure central storage included with this security risk assessment.
When you complete all of the questions in the security gap assessment, you can immediately print out a Security Gap Analysis Report that offers steps for risk mitigation
All pricing packages are backed up by a 30-day money back guarantee.
For questions about this Online HIPAA Security Gap Assessment you can contact HIPAA Risk Analytics by phone or email:
Call Christopher Sullivan at 850-591-2821
Send email to Christopher Sullivan at cbsullivan@hipaariskanalytics.com
The Online SRA partners collectively have over a hundred of years of experience in HIPAA, Health IT, privacy and security and web and database development. Here is the team:
Christopher Sullivan, PhD is the CEO of HIPAA Risk Analytics LLC. He spent five years developing this Online HIPAA Security Gap Assessment with the help of these partners. He is also the CEO of Image Research, a communication consulting firm that specializes in medical informatics, HIPAA privacy and security, Health Information Exchange, Telehealth, and health data analysis.
Christopher has three decades of experience in academics, health-related management in Florida government and health care facilities, software development, and multivariate data analysis. Christopher is an expert in CMS quality reporting programs and assists Florida ambulatory providers in completing annual CMS attestation and Security RIsk Assessment reporting.
As an Adjunct Professor, Christopher taught or is teaching courses in Public Health Informatics at Nova Southeastern University, Courses in Telecommunications and Networking in Health Care for the Biomedical Informatics at College of Osteopathic Medicine, and Courses in Health Information Management, Electronic Health Records and Privacy, and Security at Florida International University (FIU). Christopher has co-authored white papers for HIMSS, AHIMA, and the Office of National Coordinator for Health IT (ONC).
Isaac Sullivan is responsible for overall IT management, application development and implementation, and primary technical account manager for our clients. Isaac has worked as a software professional, web developer, database manager and lead research technologist for over two decades.
In past roles Isaac served as technical lead responsible for architecting and developing the FCAT Explorer, the offical Florida statewide Internet training and testing system for elementary school students in Florida. Isaac also served as a consultant responsible for designing and developing Internet and Intranet applications for state agencies in Florida.
Walt Culbertson is the founder and President of Connecting Healthcare® dedicated to HIPAA Compliant secure healthcare administrative and clinical transactions success since 2004. Walt served as the Chief Technology, Security and Privacy Officer of Webify Solutions, and was the founding Chief Technology, Security and Privacy Officer for Availity, one of the nation's largest national health care clearinghouses. Walt also served as the Vice President of HIPAA Solutions for The TriZetto Group and as a senior healthcare consultant for PriceWaterhouseCoopers, LLP, performing in the role as a Director within the PwC Healthcare Consulting Practice.
Walt served as the Co-Chair of a CMS Sponsored Insurance Commissioner HIPAA Task Force which included the thirteen Southern States, and is the founding Chair of the Southern HIPAA Administrative Regional Process (SHARP), a public and private collaboration of private health care organizations a public and private collaboration of private health care organizations with HHS, HRSA, and CMS. Walt was one of the founding Security and Privacy Co-Chairs for the WEDi HIPAA Strategic National Implementation Process (SNIP) and served on the executive boards of the HIPAA Conformance Certification Organization (HCCO) and the HIPAA Action Workgroup of Kentucky.
Attorney Susan Miller is Chief Privacy Officer for Connecting Healthcare®. Sue is a a national HIPAA and HITECH health care expert and strategist who has consulted with covered entities, business associates, technology companies, Affordable Care Organizations, Regional Extension Centers, state Medicaid Agencies and federal agencies such as the Office of Civil Rights, the National Institute of Standards and Technology, and the Colleges of Medicare and Medicaid.
Sue developed the NIST HIPAA Security risk analysis and audit tool as well as HIPAA privacy and security tools for risk analysis and assessment, audit, breach notification and HIPAA policies and procedures, plus contingency plans, disaster recovery plans, training plans and training materials used by both covered entities and business associates. Sue was one of the founding Security and Privacy Co-Chairs for the Workgroup for Electronic Data Interchange (WEDi), HIPAA Strategic National Implementation Process (SNIP), and served on the board of the Southern HIPAA Administrative Regional Process (SHARP), a public and private collaboration of private health care organizations and Health and Human Services (HHS), Health Resources Services Administration (HRSA) and the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS).