RegScale Announces Support for HIPAA for Healthcare Sector

The Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act regulations are divided into several major standards or rules: Privacy Rule, Security Rule, Transactions and Code Sets (TCS) Rule, Unique Identifiers Rule, Breach Notification Rule, Omnibus Final Rule, and the HITECH Act.

To improve the efficiency and effectiveness of the healthcare system, the Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act of 1996 (HIPAA), Public Law 104-191, included Administrative Simplification provisions that required HHS to adopt national standards for electronic healthcare transactions and code sets, unique health identifiers, and security.

At the same time, Congress recognized that advances in electronic technology could erode the privacy of health information. Consequently, Congress incorporated HIPAA provisions that mandated the adoption of Federal privacy protections for individually identifiable health information.

At RegScale, we provide a software platform that offers easy and free tools to get started with building a HIPAA-compliant program with support for tracking policies, related assessments, evidence collection, issues management/performance improvement, and other related workflows. As of March 28, 2022, RegScale has announced that we officially support HIPAA as a catalog within our platform with automated tools/wizards for building compliant inspection programs. In addition, we have published multiple machine-readable formats of HIPAA including an Excel spreadsheet, raw JSON, and NIST OSCAL that are available upon request. These artifacts are freely available for others to reuse in their compliance automation programs using machine-readable formats.

Schedule a free demo today to learn how RegScale can help you continuously meet your HIPAA requirements. If you are ready to start automating your compliance processes for creating and managing HIPAA requirements, this demo will also show how you can leverage RegScale to deliver continuous compliance. In addition to offering free tools, we have experienced compliance professionals who can assist you in creating robust HIPAA compliance artifacts that will help you pass audits with ease. With RegScale, our customers get software with a service to provide a concierge like experience for achieving healthcare system security.