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HIPAA Compliance is a process you must apply to your business. This process can be simplified into six steps (or phases) that result in ongoing HIPAA Compliance.

6 Steps to HIPAA Compliance:

1. Conduct a Readiness Assessment
2. Prepare a Gap Analysis
3. Develop a Risk Analysis
4. Develop an Implementation Plan
5. Implementation
6. Monitor Regulation Changes

Penalties for Non-compliance

HIPAA calls for severe civil and criminal penalties for noncompliance, including:

• Fines up to $25,000 for multiple violations of the same standard in a calendar year, and

• Fines up to $250,000 and/or imprisonment up to 10 years for knowing misuse of individually identifiable health information.

For More Information

• Six Steps to HIPAA Compliance
  12/28/01 - By Benjamin S. Taylor of Premier Solutions, Inc. in MS Word format

• Phoenix Health Systems' Status of HIPAA Regulations Compliance Calendar (updated December 2006)

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