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Easy, Quick & Cheap HIPAA Compliance

With the HIPAA Notebook, any healthcare team can implement a complete HIPAA compliance program faster, easier and cheaper.

Our Framework For HIPAA Compliance

What Makes The HIPAA Notebook Easy, Quick & Cheap?

• Simple language: the HIPAA Notebook avoids using intimidating legal and technical lingo.
• There is a checklist of steps to complete. Each step is basically filling out a form on the website. Complete the checklist and you are HIPAA compliant.
• The HIPAA Notebook provides sensible defaults such as a list of suggested HIPAA rules to implement.
• Daily Zoom Call Every weekday at 8am Pacific Time¹, Bert hosts a group Zoom call to explain how to use the HIPAA Notebook. You have the option of joining and asking questions.
• Each step has a quick video that explains how to fill out the form.
• If there is a problem or question, you can email, text msg, or call Bert. Or ask your question on the next Zoom call.
• The HIPAA Notebook is an online (digital) document. But, you have the option of printing (PDF) a physical copy of your HIPAA Notebook.
• The HIPAA Notebook is a web application so you can work on it anytime of day. For example, you might want to work on it before or after hours to not interrupt patient appointments and workflows.
• The HIPAA Notebook works in any web browser.
• The HIPAA Notebook works on any device: cellphone, tablet, laptop or desktop.
• Because it works on a mobile device like an iPhone, you can update the HIPAA Notebook from anywhere and anytime.
• The step that will probably take the longest is getting signed Business Associate Agreements with your outsourcing partners like accounting, medical billing, marketing, etc. Getting their signature might take a few days.
• The HIPAA Notebook is ideal for smaller healthcare teams like medical practices.
• For each location, the HIPAA Notebook costs $120 per year or $10 per month². So if you are a business that owns 3 medical practice locations, the cost is $360 per year.
• The HIPAA Police have repeated many times that every location needs a separate HIPAA Notebook. Once you complete one location, you'll understand why.

What Goes In The HIPAA Notebook?

• Business Name & Owners
• Address of each location / facility

Then these items are completed for each location:

• HIPAA Specialist - designated person in charge of HIPAA for the location
• HIPAA Rules - policies & procedures for the location
• Location Asssessment - weather & other risks to the building
• Risk Assessment of the people, places & things that contain Patient Data
• List of Rooms
• List of Business & Medical Equipment
• List of Computer Equipment
• List of Software Apps & Services
• List of People
• List of Business Associates
• Monthly Updates - compliance is not a one-time event – it is ongoing
• Review Patient Data Access Reports
• Updates to Risk Assessment - e.g. saying goodby to an employee
• Employee Training & Sanctions - everybody is responsbile for Protecting Patient Data and Respecting Patient Rights
• Breach Notifications – if Patient Data is lost

A checklist was mentioned earlier. The above is the checklist. Complete the checklist and you have a legit claim to being HIPAA compliant.

Why Trust The HIPAA Notebook From Clinic Nerds?

Everytime there is a big HIPAA violation, the HIPAA Police publish all of the legal documents and a press release on their website. Anybody can read those documents. Bert read all of those documents from all of the cases.

Then Bert wrote a case summary for each major HIPAA violation. And Bert also turned those case summaries into a 350+ page Amazon eBook.

Basically, the HIPAA Police are shouting from the rooftops - their website - what they want us to do to be HIPAA compliant. And the HIPAA Police repeat themselves a lot. For each case, they give pretty much the same advice: .. have HIPAA rules .. conduct a risk assessment .. use encryption .. sign Business Associate Agreements .. update monthly .. document everything!

ALL of the advice comes directly from the HIPAA Police. All of the advice given by Clinic Nerds with the HIPAA Notebook is just repeating what the HIPAA Police are telling us to do.

However, the HIPAA Police are lawyers working in a regulatory government agency - so sometimes they write in a way that is not very clear to regular folks. So Bert has rephrased, reformatted and repackaged the HIPAA Police Advice into easier formats. The Clinic Nerds approach is to try to use simple language and easy formats like short videos. Don't Worry Be HIPAA!

Who is Bert?

• Founder Clinic Nerds
• Based In Las Vegas
• Former IBM Employee 20 years
• Software Architect/Engineer (computer programmer)
• Researched & Wrote All Material
• Full Name: Norbert Ryan
• Email: bert@clinicnerds.com

Best HIPAA Shortcut Advice → Use Encryption

Stolen unencrypted computers are the #1 cause of HIPAA violations. Make sure that all your computer devices are using encryption on the disk drive (data storage). Computer devices means: laptops, desktops, servers, USB flash drives, mobile phones, tablets, backup drives, etc.