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Navigating the complexities of the Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act (HIPAA) and the Occupational Safety and Health Administration (OSHA) is a huge undertaking for any healthcare organization, and compliance gaps can be costly. That’s why over 5,000 practices rely on Bridge™ Compliance to ensure staff are trained by compliance experts and following protocols, routines, and processes that keep staff, patients, and data safe.
HIPAA COMPLIANCE SOFTWARE
Safeguard your reputation, earn the trust of your patients, and operate with confidence knowing you have an easy way to stay organized and up to date on all HIPAA requirements. Bridge Compliance reduces the time it takes to meet compliance standards so you can focus on providing excellent patient care.
Bridge Compliance's assessments can identify areas where your practice’s data is vulnerable to attacks. By implementing our advanced data security software, your practice will be better equipped to withstand online attacks. Our HIPAA staff training courses also help you implement safeguards like using strong passwords and providing staff and business associates with the appropriate level of ePHI access.
Meeting HIPAA requirements can be time-consuming. By relying on our HIPAA compliance software that automates common compliance tasks, you can streamline HIPAA procedures. This flexibility allows you and your staff to free up time to focus on what you do best — delivering quality patient care.
Efficient HIPAA compliance management ensures you stay compliant as your practice grows. Rectangle Health's HIPAA compliance solutions seamlessly scale as your practice expands.
Security breaches can undermine your practice's trustworthiness. Caring for your patients' health and keeping their information secure can enhance patient satisfaction.
Rectangle Health is the Endorsed OSHA Compliance Provider and proud to be a Corporate Member of the American Association of Dental Office Management (AADOM).
OSHA COMPLIANCE SOFTWARE
Compliance with OSHA requirements takes work, so it helps when you can rely on a single software solution. Bridge Compliance helps you stay compliant and confidently run your practice knowing you’re protected.
Prospective employees seek safe work environments. OSHA compliance management software can help you stay compliant with custom OSHA plans and trainings, keeping your work environment safe to attract and retain employees. Our OSHA self-inspection tool and custom OSHA plans help you stay within regulations. Plus, providing thorough OSHA training through Rectangle Health's software solutions can decrease the risk of workplace accidents, enhancing workplace safety.
By automating OSHA tasks including OHSA trainings and exposure and incident tags, you can boost your healthcare practice's efficiency and save tons of staff time. Keep your practice safe while and empower employees to focus on providing exceptional patient care.
By documenting exposures and incidents, tracking employee training, and storing self-inspection audit data, you'll always be ready for an OSHA inspection. Digitally storing and organizing compliance data serves as evidence of compliance.
FREE HIPAA GAP ASSESSMENT
Identify and address compliance gaps with our intuitive HIPAA Gap Assessment tool. Quickly uncover areas of concern to help protect your practice from costly fines and reputational damage.
Digitally store your HIPAA and OSHA procedures.
Access online courses and videos for employees, as federally mandated.
Track required employee acknowledgment of policies.
Create, manage, and store each of your Business Associate Agreements.
Obtain an annual assessment to identify potential HIPAA vulnerabilities.
Access the OSHA Self Inspection Tool and Audit Checklist.
Tap into a library of data sheets based on your practice needs.
Protect your practice with up to $25,000 in OSHA audit protection.
Keep a record of incidents along with response guidance.
The healthcare industry faces the unique challenge of dealing with sensitive patient data as well as unique workplace risks such as bloodborne pathogens. Healthcare practices and enterprises must adhere to HIPAA and OSHA regulations to safeguard patient information and employee wellbeing. We can help your practice stay compliant without HIPAA- and OSHA-required tasks becoming burdensome and interfering with the quality of care you provide.
HIPAA safeguards sensitive patient information by establishing regulations that entities handling protected health information (PHI) must adhere to. To ensure HIPAA compliance, these entities must implement physical, network, and process security measures. Covered entities include healthcare providers, clearinghouses, and health plans, which means everyone involved in patient treatment, payment procedures, and healthcare operations must adhere to HIPAA regulations.
The HIPAA Privacy Rule safeguards patients' health information while ensuring optimal information flow between entities for quality care. The HIPAA Security Rule protects electronic information. The use of electronic health records (EHRs), computerized provider order entry (CPOE) systems, and other electronic systems to store and share information increases the security risk of patient data.
Entities need to implement technical and non-technical safety procedures to safeguard electronic protected health information (ePHI). You can safeguard ePHI through HIPPA adherence. Effective HIPAA compliance technology can ensure advanced ePHI data security, keeping you compliant.
The Office for Civil Rights (OCR) is responsible for enforcing the HIPAA Privacy and Security Rules by penalizing violations. Examples of HIPAA violations include:
Disclosing patient information in public spaces, like open-plan treatment areas. When healthcare providers discuss patients in hallways, they can easily disclose PHI without realizing it.
Sharing patient information on social media without written consent from the patient. Providers who share celebratory posts of patients' recovery or post a photo with PHI in the background can create a violation.
Sharing PHI information with business partners that are ill-equipped to protect PHI. Healthcare providers can share PHI with other providers who undergo certain checks to ensure they can protect sensitive data.
OCR will determine the financial penalty entities need to pay for violations. To determine the penalty, OCR follows a penalty structure and accounts for a range of factors, including the number of patients affected, the length of the violation, and the nature of the exposed data. Violations can be costly.
Effective HIPAA compliance solutions can help you frictionlessly achieve compliance and avoid these expensive violations.
OSHA compliance aims to mitigate workplace injuries and accidents by ensuring work environments are safe. When your organization abides by OSHA regulations, it safeguards employees and reduces financial and legal risks. OSHA standards for the healthcare industry are stringent, as healthcare workers may be exposed to various unique hazards that other industries do not encounter. Some healthcare-specific standards you must adhere to include:
- Ionizing radiation
- Personal protective equipment (PPE)
- Bloodborne pathogens
- A fire prevention plan with portable fire extinguishers
- Hazard communication
- Electrical safety
- Injury/illness recordkeeping and reporting
- Respirable crystalline silica and beryllium
- An emergency action plan
- A respiratory protection plan
To stay compliant, healthcare facilities must:
- Provide OSHA employee training.
- Develop written OSHA programs and procedures.
- Record workplace illnesses and injuries.
- Carry out routine safety inspections.
- Supply appropriate safety equipment.
- Keep up to date with regulation changes.
- Address employee concerns and complaints.
OSHA enforces its standards by conducting thorough inspections and investigations. Inspections might occur when OSHA receives a report of a violation at a healthcare facility or when workplace accidents cause injuries. OSHA has a priority system in place for inspections. The system's order is below:
1. An imminent danger in your work environment
2. Fatal accidents
3. Reports of alleged violations
4. Scheduled inspections at high-hazard workplaces
5. Follow-up inspections to determine if previous violations have been addressed
If OSHA finds violations at your healthcare facility, they can issue citations and hefty monetary penalties. OSHA will schedule a follow-up inspection to ensure violations have been corrected. If you fail to address these violations, OSHA can involve the Federal District Court to take judicial action.
Rectangle Health serves healthcare practices and enterprises by offering innovative and advanced software solutions that simplify practice management, payments, patient engagement, and compliance. We have more than 30 years of experience solely focused on providing software solutions for the healthcare industry.
Our expertise enables us to offer innovative tools like Bridge Compliance that ease compliance burdens and enable you to reap all the benefits of being a HIPAA- and OSHA-compliant facility. We champion our clients' growth and stay with them every step of the way — scaling our solutions as their needs increase.
A SAFE AND COMPLIANT PRACTICE
