Overview

Security Brigade recognizes the challenges and opportunities organisations face in conducting business in a HIPAA compliant environment. The requirement of administration simplification specified in HIPAA presents an opportunity for organisations to redefine their processes to bring about efficiencies and adopt new technologies. Our approach to HIPAA compliance begins with assessing the impact of the Act on the organisation's processes and services. As part of the assessment we carry out the following:

• Understanding the organisation's existing position and the challenges the regulation present.
• Assessing internal capabilities and identify gaps.
• Organising and plan for compliance efforts.

Return on investment
In addition to addressing HIPAA compliance issues, our solution can help you gain a return on your investment:

• Improve workforce efficiency by standardizing transaction processing.
• Increase profitability by automating many customer contacts, reducing labor costs.
• Increase operational efficiency by improving claims processing and streamlining business processes.
• Improve customer satisfaction and retention.
• Boost profitability by automating customer contacts and reducing labor costs.
• Streamline operational processes by standardizing transaction processing.

Features

Security Brigade Consultants have experience working with healthcare organisations to prepare for current and future regulatory compliance mandates. Our HIPAA solution for healthcare organisations can help you:

• Implement a HIPAA solution designed by our healthcare technology professionals
• Leverage our leading methodology backed by powerful tools and technical architectures
• Gain an end-to-end solution -- needs assessment, solution design, implementation, training and maintenance to support your HIPAA compliance efforts
• Draw on our intellectual capital from successful HIPAA engagements
• End-to-end solutions including needs assessment, solution design, implementation, training and maintenance support HIPAA compliance efforts.
• Consulting practitioners within Security Brigade have extensive professional experience in the healthcare industry.

Benefits

The HIPAA solution for healthcare organisations from Security Brigade can help you achieve mandated compliance. Security Brigade can provide industry experts to review and assess your business operations, then design and implement a solution to help you:

• Comply with HIPAA security guidelines relating to transmitted data and individual privacy rights
• Maintain and improve the security of member data
• Utilize technology to help ensure that information is easily accessible to the right people at the right time
• Maintain and improve data accuracy
• Build a trusted environment where information can be exchanged securely among patients, members, providers and health plans
• Apply uniform standards to your electronic transactions for efficiency, to help accelerate your e-business initiatives
• Improve member services and retention to boost your competitive positioning while addressing the business impacts of HIPAA
• Redefine business processes for continued compliance as HIPAA mandates change

In addition, our solution offers significant business advantages:

• Assess, monitor and streamline daily business operations and processes
• Improve efficiencies by standardizing transactions processing and other routine operations
• Process claims and transactions faster using automated systems
• Automate customer contacts for improved efficiency and customer convenience
• Improve speed and accuracy of customer service, to boost satisfaction and expand customer base

Technical Information

Take advantage of our experience with HIPAA solutions for healthcare providers:

Our HIPAA solutions are backed by powerful tools and reference architectures with a complete range of technology, services and capabilities, including:

• Infrastructure development
• Customization for your particular needs
• Systems implementation
• Business transformation
• Training
• Our system management and security consultants can design and implement security systems for multiple platforms and environments.
• Security Brigade is dedicated to open-source architecture for scalability and integration across virtually any platform

Low cost of ownership

In addition to addressing HIPAA compliance issues, our solution can help deliver low cost of ownership:

• The solution platform is open standards-based making it reusable and scalable to meet your changing needs.
• Open standards also help provide compatibility with your current infrastructure.
• We offer easy implementation with minimal change to your existing infrastructure.