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"The Ambulance Service Guide to HIPAA Compliance" has helped thousands of ambulance services across the United States prepare for HIPAA. The PWW HIPAA guide has become "the bible" for HIPAA compliance in EMS and the ambulance industry.

This comprehensive HIPAA compliance guide covers both the Privacy and Security regulations in one complete publication.  As with all PWW publications, the Ambulance Service Guide to HIPAA Compliance addresses the complicated rules in a down-to-earth, easy-to-understand, and, most importantly, an EMS-specific way. And the Third Edition is really two books in one, since it covers both the Security Rule and the Privacy Rule! Here are just a few of the Security Rule provisions covered in the Third Edition:

• New requirements for "business associate" agreements with electronic PHI trading partners under the Security Rule;
• Performing the required risk analysis for data systems where patient information is stored or transmitted; 
•  Implementing required security measures to safeguard electronic health information;
• Conducting required security awareness training for your employees, volunteers and other workforce members;
• Developing emergency backup plans to be able to access your electronic patient information during power outages and other system failures;
• Establishing access control solutions, such as password management, and other procedures to ensure the integrity of your patient information;
• Utilizing facility security and other access controls to make sure that unauthorized individuals cannot access your patient information;
• Employing encryption for transmitting patient information by e-mail and over the internet; and
• Many other required provisions of the Security Rule.

In addition, the Third Edition contains all of the new forms, policies and other documents you will need to achieve compliance with the new Security Rule, and integrates those documents seamlessly with your existing privacy forms and policies.

The Third Edition also addresses other new important developments under the Privacy Rule, and contains revised and expanded discussions of the tough HIPAA topics that users have requested. Among other things, the Third Edition contains all new material such as:

• Detailed information and instructions regarding the release of patient information to law enforcement;
• Guidelines for releasing information to the media, including information specifically for EMS Public Information Officers (PIOs);
• A completely new section called "HIPAA EMS MythBusters" - setting the record straight on the toughest and most frequently-asked HIPAA questions specifically in the EMS context;
• New policies, such as a Policy on the Release of PHI to Law Enforcement and a Policy on Disclosures of PHI to the Media;
• All-new sections on HIPAA in an age of terrorism, HIPAA and mass casualty incidents, HIPAA and special events/standbys, and releasing information to family members; and
• Much, much more.

Of course, the Third Edition also includes revised and updated discussions of many of the front-line EMS and ambulance topics that made the first two editions such overwhelming successes.

The PWW HIPAA Guide contains all the practical information and forms you need to implement the massive and wide-ranging HIPAA regulations, and maximize your Privacy and Security compliance. PWW has taken the thousands of pages of regulations and government documents and produced a complete package of forms, policies and guidelines specific for the ambulance industry. This will allow you to be ahead of the regulatory train and help ensure your service's compliance with the numerous legal obligations imposed on ambulance providers under HIPAA.

When it comes to HIPAA compliance for ambulance services, a trusted name stands out above all others: Page, Wolfberg & Wirth, LLC. Don't trust your agency's HIPAA compliance to anyone else. Our HIPAA resources have assisted thousands of ambulance services and EMS providers in complying with HIPAA.

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