Omega Health IT Solutions

There is a significant development that has already happened around HIPAA compliance programs across healthcare organizations. HIPAA compliance has been the topic of discussion in the board rooms for quite some time and organizations have taken requisite steps for achieving compliance to HIPAA mandates. Deadline for transaction and code sets compliance is long finished and we are looking towards the April 05 ultimatum on achieving Security deadline. Omega has a specialized cell, InHIPAA, which specializes in providing HIPAA compliance solutions for our clients. Our services have been tightly-targeted solution frameworks, which have been built for flexibility, and can easily be customized for your specific requirements, and to fit into your budgets.

These frameworks have not only been used for our clients, but have also been used internally for all our projects that we do for our healthcare clients. We have undertaken extensive internal assessments on compliance to Privacy and security mandates and have offered learnings as service offerings to our clients. Under the InHIPAA framework, services towards ensuring compliance mandates can be deployed at your enterprise through any of the following approaches:

A tactical approach, which aims at providing compliance by letter of law; the benefits of this approach are cost-effectiveness and quick turn-around. This approach is a tactical solution to meet short-term objectives.

A strategic, or value added approach that will encompass within it the strategic objectives of the organization. This provides you with business benefits such as increasing market penetration, competitive advantage while staying within budgets, ensuring effective risk management and complete compliance with all regulatory and accreditation standards

Solution deployment across functional and technology requirements include the following :

HIPAA Compliance Assessment: The initial study, which results in a HIPAA summary status report. Recently we have conducted a comprehensive HIPAA Security Gap Analysis for a large covered entity.

Assessment analysis and solution definition: Analysis focuses on identifying the gaps in assessment reports and additional inputs required to define the solution.

HIPAA Reference Model Customization: Through pre arranged workshops the generic reference models will be customized to the environment of the client.

HIPAA Compliance Remediation: Covers review of EDI standards, code sets mapping and unique identifiers.

Compliance Testing: Areas like Transaction and Code Set implementation and privacy and security implementation, among others, are checked to ensure zero defects. Our Testing framework also includes testing of Security compliance which is more technology intensive and auditing for Privacy compliance levels.

Implementation and maintenance support: This includes customized support and maintenance for products and solutions that have been implemented.

HIPAA Compliance Management: We also strongly focus on maintaining the current compliance levels by conducting periodic compliance Audits, defining control mechanisms and validating compliance Practices (Privacy and Security).

National Provider Identifiers Solutions: Healthcare organizations are gearing towards building capabilities to comply with HIPAA Identifier guidelines. These will improve the efficiency and effectiveness of the health care system. Omega solution helps in formulating a short term and long term IT strategy for Identifier compliance and implementing them.