Once you have decided to get yourself HIPAA compliant medical billing software, you must ensure that you try all the features of the available software before you zero in on to any particular software. The first and foremost thing you need to check is what technology the software use for ensuring HIPAA compliance as far as data security is concerned. Will the data remain secure even in case the systems are hacked and the physical data is accessed? What encryption technologies are used by the HIPAA compliant software to protect the privacy of the medical records of the patient required to be kept private as per the mandate of the HIPAA laws.
The new HIPAA complaint software provide for so many options and customization choices that the medical practitioners are often confused as to what and which software to buy. There are a large selection of user chosen features to prevent compromise of a patient’s private medical data.
The technological advancement has taken the technology involved in the medical billing software to new heights. The encryption technology used in most of these software is the 1024 bits Triple DES algorithm considered to be the most secure amongst all the encryption technologies available currently.
Before you choose certain software make sure that the HIPAA compliant software package which you have chosen includes all the finalized aspects of latest HIPAA guidelines to guarantee 100% compliance of the HIPAA standards as far as they relate to provisioning for the electronic transfer of secured health information. These regulations prescribed under the HIPAA came into force February 2003, and has directly affected every medical practitioner in the United States. With effect from April 2005, HIPAA requires that security measures to be
implemented for physical security and electronically secure transfer of protected health information (PHI) from unauthorized access, retrieval, storage of the electronic data.
