HIPAA Compliance

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If you are part of our HIPAA compliance program and get hit with a HIPAA violation, we will give you $1,000 toward our on-staff HIPAA attorney fees.

Is Your Practice Data SAFE from Security Breaches?

Healthcare is the #1 target for Ransomware. It’s time for every dental practice
to take the necessary steps to avoid becoming a victim.

Here’s our helpful HIPAA Compliance Checklist to get you started on the process of making sure you are HIPAA compliant and your valuable data is protected.

55% of HIPAA Breaches for Dental Practices Are the Result of Ransomware Attacks!

The First Step:

The HIPAA Security Risk Assessment (SRA)

The Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act (HIPAA) Security Rule requires that covered entities and business associates (that means all general dental and dental specialty practices in the United States) conduct a risk assessment of their healthcare organization. The SRA is part of your ongoing HIPAA compliance process and needs to be completed at least once every 12 months.

 

A risk assessment helps your practice ensure it is compliant with HIPAA’s administrative, physical, and technical safeguards. A proper risk assessment is a deep dive into your network to reveal areas where your organization’s protected health information (PHI) could be at risk. The key to a HIPAA Security Risk Assessment is to come away with a Management Plan that addresses any risks identified in the risk assessment.

 

Can you do it yourself? Yes, you can try. There are online forms and Q&A assessments in some HIPAA notebooks. Many offices have “do It yourself” assessments. These assessments fall short of what is required of a proper risk assessment.They do not look into your network to determine what security measures you already have in place and if they are effective. Nor do they assess what security measures are needed to not only meet HIPAA requirements, but provide a plan of how to increase your network’s security and decrease the chance of a data breach. A proper risk assessment is a deep dive into your office’s computer network and needs to be completed by a trained IT professional with the proper tools to fully assess your network.

DDS Rescue’s HIPAA Security Risk Assessment

We developed our HIPAA Security Risk Assessment based on the guidelines of the HHS Security Rule:

  • The Administrative Safeguards provisions in the Security Rule require covered entities to perform risk assessment as part of their security management processes.
  • A proper risk assessment is a deep dive into your network to evaluate the likelihood and impact of potential risks to all e-PHI. Covering Administrative, Physical and Technical Safeguards provisioned in the Security Rule.
  • Develop a Management Plan to address the risks identified in the risk assessment
  • Risk assessment is an ongoing process and needs to be run at least once every 12 months.

HIPAA Training and Compliance Program

Implementing HIPAA compliance can be complicated and time consuming. Our full HIPAA Training and Compliance Program has been designed with the needs of the dental office in mind and is backed by the most knowledgeable people in the industry. DDS Rescue specializes in working with dental offices and delivering policies and processes to ensure that you are operating within HIPAA guidelines.

 

Our thorough, ongoing, compliance program has been designed to take the worry and work away from the practice owner, manager and office staff.  The total time for set-up of this program is two hours or less, plus one hour a year for the HIPAA risk assessment and another hour for the annual HIPAA training.

 

Here’s What’s Our Program Includes:

  • Enterprise-level HIPAA Security Risk Assessment (performed yearly). This includes a complete audit of your current systems. Any failures to adhere to HIPAA guidelines can then be rectified.
  • Access to your personalized online HIPAA portal
  • Your state’s compliance regulations and how they differ from the Federal regulations
  • Initial and yearly required staff training
  • Evidence of compliance report (we run a fresh report for you every year)
  • On-call technical support with the HIPAA experts
  • World-class support from our experienced, on-staff experienced HIPAA Attorney 
  • Policies and procedures manual, which we create for you
  • All forms including all patient-facing forms and business associate agreements (BAA)
  • HIPAA incident report form (if needed)
  • 2 CE credits upon passing our easy, online 10-question quiz

Take the First Step!

HIPAA Training and Compliance Program

Implementing HIPAA compliance can be complicated and time consuming. Our full HIPAA Training and Compliance Program has been designed with the needs of the dental office in mind and is backed by the most knowledgeable people in the industry. DDS Rescue specializes in working with dental offices and delivering policies and processes to ensure that you are operating within HIPAA guidelines.


Our thorough, ongoing, compliance program has been designed to take the worry and work away from the practice owner, manager and office staff. The total time for set-up of this program is two hours or less, plus one hour a year for the HIPAA risk assessment and another hour for the annual HIPAA training.

What Does Your Practice Need to be HIPAA Compliant?

  • Policies and procedures to ensure protection of ePHI that comply with State and Federal law.
  • An annual enterprise level Risk Assessment that meets the HIPAA standards. 
    • It is highly recommended that this is managed by a third-party compliance company. 
    • Most IT providers do not have the experience to perform this properly and they may have a bias if they manage the network. It is a similar concept to having outside auditors audit the financials vs the in-house accounting team.

Business Associates Agreements

  • It is recommended by HIPAA to have up-to-date business associates agreements (BAA) in place for service providers to your practice including but not limited to:
    • IT providers
    • Outside billing entities who access PHI
    • Data backup services

Our HIPAA Training and Compliance Program Checks All the Boxes!

  • Enterprise-level HIPAA Security Risk Assessment (performed yearly). This includes a complete audit of your current systems. Any failures to adhere to HIPAA guidelines can then be rectified.
  • Access to your personalized online HIPAA portal.
  • Your state’s compliance regulations and how they differ from the Federal regulations.
  • Staff training from dental experts who know the dental world. This includes initial training followed by required yearly training. 
  • Evidence of compliance report (we run a fresh report for you every year).
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  • On-call technical support with the HIPAA experts.
  • World-class support from our experienced, on-staff experienced HIPAA Attorney who can help with breach notifications and general patient complaints.
  • Policies and procedures manual, which we create for you
  • All forms including all patient-facing forms and business associate agreements (BAA)
  • HIPAA incident report form (if needed)
  • 2 CE credits upon passing our easy, online 10-question quiz

Pricing

HIPAA Training and Compliance Program

Without DDS Rescue® Elite or Standard Backup and Recovery Service.

$59 per month

(Compare to $1,200/yearly for business-class HIPAA consulting and compliance from other companies)

With DDS Rescue® Elite or Standard Backup and Recovery Service.

Starting at $249 per month

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