Many health care organizations find themselves scrambling to prepare their information systems to help them meet the next HIPAA regulation deadline. These administrative standards for regulating the storing and transmitting of patient information require organizations to adapt processes throughout the care continuum. MEDITECH's tightly integrated system provides the tools to help staff meet these requirements.

MEDITECH offers HIPAA-compliant versions of EDI transactions, including claims submissions, remittance transactions, and health care eligibility transactions. Our system also enables organizations to honor privacy rights by enabling patients to opt out of hospital directories; using medical record numbers, rather than patient names, in reports; and flagging VIP/confidential patients.

Additionally, the MEDITECH system incorporates multi-tiered access control features that provide protection across all levels and types of access, as well as system-wide audit trails that track the viewing and editing of data.

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