Free HIPAA Forms, Downloads, and Resources
At Compliancy Group, our goal is to provide health care professionals with the most effective tools to achieve HIPAA compliance, and better serve patients and customers. As the industry leaders in HIPAA compliance, we make it our mission to provide everything you need to simplify compliance so you can focus on running your business.
The HIPAA resources on this page will give you the advantage you need to start to assess the status of your compliance. Our HIPAA Compliance Checklist, free HIPAA forms, and HIPAA education comes from the top HIPAA experts in the country who are working with us to help you succeed. Please feel free to download and utilize any of the information below–and to contact us directly if you have any questions you have about becoming HIPAA compliance.
5 Step Survival Guide for Healthcare Providers
The HIPAA Timeline
The Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act was passed on August 21, 1996, during the re-election campaign of President Bill Clinton. The law was the end-product of twin concerns of Congress as America entered into [...]
January 2020 Healthcare Breaches Affect Almost 500,000 Patients
The Department of Health and Human Services’ (HHS) Office for Civil Rights (OCR) reported 32 January healthcare breaches, affecting 462,856 patients. Of the reported incidents, there were 19 breaches due to hacking/IT incidents, 9 breaches [...]
Criminal Investigation for Alleged HIPAA Violations
A former employee of ACM Global Laboratories, part of Rochester Regional Health, is being accused of continuously accessing a co-worker’s protected health information (PHI) without authorization. Kristina Ciaccia, the victim of the potential HIPAA violation, [...]
The HIPAA Security Rule and Vulnerability Scans
Under the HIPAA Security Rule, covered entities must implement safeguards to protect the confidentiality, integrity, and availability of electronic protected health information (ePHI). ePHI is any protected health information that is created, stored, transmitted, or [...]
Security Breaches in Healthcare Skyrocket
At the end of 2019, Black Book Market Research conducted a study, surveying 2,876 security professionals from 733 healthcare provider organizations, to determine trends in security breaches in healthcare. The data they discovered indicated that [...]
What is a HIPAA Limited Data Set?
Under HIPAA, a limited data set is protected health information (PHI) that excludes certain direct identifiers of an individual, or certain direct identifiers of relatives, employers, or household members of the individual. What is a [...]
