Our medical transcription process strictly adheres to the HIPAA or Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act. HIPAA is a collection of regulatory and legal requirements designed to govern the increased electronic transfer of health relation information.
This law is mandatory and ensures the continuity of healthcare coverage for individuals. It includes stringent provisions that has a huge impact on the management of health information, and it also helps in simplifying the administration of health insurance and aims to combat waste, fraud and abuse in healthcare and health insurance.
The prime objective of this organization which came into force in 1996 is to protect and safeguard the patient information, while it is transmitted over the internet.
We, at Oriental Solutions have been focused on this objective from the day we started the process of medical transcription. We know how important and confidential is to safeguard the patient’s information and HIPAA regulations have been very helpful in maintaining it.
HIPAA guidelines are today creating improvement in healthcare industry.
In Oriental Solutions, we follow a set of administrative procedures and policies that are based on HIPAA guidelines, to protect the confidentiality and integrity of all the information, related to the patient. This security of patient information calls for a signing an NDA (non-disclosure agreement) or confidentiality statement by all associates.
We ensure that all our services exceed the HIPAA guidelines in the four categories:
All the privacy and security guidelines are updated periodically based on the inputs given by the HIPAA consultants.
To know more on HIPAA, click on the link: http://www.hipaa.org
Our contribution towards the goal of protecting the health information:
Our data encryption facility ensures the privacy of your data that flows between your web browser and our servers on our dedicated and isolated data-communication lines with well-planned contingency procedures. All the data transported is secured with 128-bit SSL encryption using security certificates.
We work with the most trusted companies and use the industry’s most cutting edge technologies to deliver, updated and manage security & compliance mechanisms in a safe environment for all your transcription data.
We give our customers a friendly, comfortable and safe environment. To achieve this, we ensure that our customers identify themselves to our servers in a secure manner via a dual-method authentication system.
The login information is stored on our physically secure servers in an encrypted format which makes it completely protected and unreadable from external harm and any fraudulent activity.
All the patient’s data is secured when it is transmitted. The data is encrypted using strong encryption technique on the device before it is sent over the internet.
We ensure that all the data stored is protected by firewall, to avoid any intrusion and hacking. The secured networks assigned by us have a “non-routable” network addresses that are invalid for use on the public internet and cannot be accessed directly.
The activities like monitoring and complete logging of all activities that occur in our system, program and network is done to ensure that the information is changed only in a specified and authorized manner. Data integrity is maintained by undertaking an audit trail of each and every document.
Data is regularly saved using on-line and off-line data backup system and is kept in a fireproof setup protected by security guards round the clock.