HIPAA

The Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act Of 1996 requires that healthcare facilities protect patient confidentiality. The large quantities of paper records generated by healthcare facilities will eventually need to be discarded, significantly adding to the two billion pounds of paper and cardboard waste produced each year by U.S. healthcare facilities. HIPAA rules actually open up the opportunity for recycling.

HIPAA Resources

Practice Greenhealth has prepared several valuable resources to help you:

• understand the basic requirements for information privacy under HIPAA
• determine whether your facility complies with HIPAA requirements
• develop confidential document disposal policies for your facility that are both environmentally responsible and fiscally prudent

PowerPoint Presentations
Introduction to HIPAA
HIPAA and Paper Recycling/Destruction
HIPAA Compliance

Guidance Documents
Main Document : Confidential Paper Document Disposal and Resource Conservation In Compliance with HIPAA
Attachment A : Brief description electronic media data destruction alternatives
Attachment B: Sample Certificate of Destruction
Attachment C: Due Diligence – Annual Audit of Confidential Paper Recycling
Attachment D: Sample Facility Assessment
Attachment E: Considerations of Shredding On-site
Attachment F: Sample Administrative Policy and Procedures
Attachment G: Sample Confidentiality Agreement facility and vendor
Attachment H: Sample General Terms and Conditions with facility and vendor