The HIPAA HITECH Compliance Meter™ Proves Compliance

HIPAA/HITECH The Compliance Meter™

The Compliance Meter™ allows a facility to demonstrate their ongoing compliance. There are four values displayed; policies, procedures, forms, and tasks completed.

The process of arriving at the scores for policies, procedures, and forms reflects our overall philosophy of giving the client templates, having them edit the templates to match their internal process and then having a human privacy and information security expert, what we call a Helper, check their edits to ensure that they still meet the standards.  This delivers a complete privacy and information security program including compliance with HIPAA, HITECH, Red Flags Rule, and many other regulations. It has been developed to meet the NIST standards containing guidance for HIPAA compliance, the OECD privacy principles, as well as supporting ISO/IEC 27001 and ISO/IEC 27002 standards.

As they work their way through the templates and get them approved their percentage of completion is reflected by the Compliance Meter. A score of 100 means that all of the policies, procedures, or forms have been reviewed, edited, and approved.

Once they have achieved their initial level of compliance they move into Care or maintenance mode. Each month they receive a list of tasks that they must accomplish in order to stay in compliance. As these tasks are completed and checked off their Care score increases. The meter reflects their Care score for the previous month. A complete history of these tasks, including the date and time of completion as well as the individual who completed the task is kept.  By providing a read-only password the user can deliver complete transparency to their business partners or external auditors.

In addition to tasks, they may also receive new or revised policies, procedures, or forms which reflect changes in the standards. Their scores will go down until these have been reviewed, edited, and approve

With a personal Helper providing oversight the viewer can be assured that they are seeing a third-party validated reflection of the ongoing level of compliance when they see the Compliance Meter™.  For Self Care clients, their meters reflect their ongoing compliance levels, but without the third party validation.

CO-OP Meters

CO-OP meters are driven by the monthly attestations.  The score is based on a combination of factors including a short HIPAA HITECH quiz and attesting to compliance activities.  One meter shows the current score and the other shows the cumulative score.