What is HIPAA?
HIPAA is the Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act passed by Congress in 1996. This complex law regulates a number of healthcare areas, including portability of healthcare benefits, claims fraud and abuse, privacy of patient information, security of information systems used by healthcare organizations and simplification of electronic standards for administrative and financial transactions. The U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) is issuing many of the regulations required by the legislation. Individuals and organizations regulated by HIPAA include all healthcare providers, health plans and healthcare clearing houses.
What is important about HIPAA?
One of HIPAA's most important requirements is that healthcare organizations must implement appropriate administrative, technical and physical safeguards to protect the privacy of patient information. Information subject to this requirement is called Protected Health Information or PHI and is defined as "any information which identifies or could be used to identify an individual and has anything to do with past, present or future physical or mental health conditions, care or payment for care".
Upload Methods
Our file upload system is hosted in a secure data center, which includes a series of security measures to ensure privacy including SSL, 128-bit encryption, a unique login ID, and user defined access parameters.
We meet or exceed all elements of the HIPAA security standards published. Our datacenter's strict network policies address the technical mechanisms used to guard against unauthorized access to data that is transmitted over a communications network to protect confidential medical information.
All data are managed through an electronic file management system. GlobalQuest BPO's system runs on a secure server, which encrypts all data communication between your computer and our server. Therefore, anyone intercepting data while it is being transferred from our server to your computer could not interpret or decode the data. To access any data a valid username and password is required. All text files are routed through our central data center to ensure privacy, integrity, and reliability. Data files then become immediately available on our network for viewing, editing, electronic signature, and distribution.
