Expert support to align your clinical workflows with ONC SAFER recommendations.
The Safety Assurance Factors for EHR Resilience (SAFER) is a framework built from 9 self-assessment tools. The framework is designed to help healthcare organizations and providers find and manage risks and vulnerabilities related to electronic medical records (EMRs) and electronic health records (EHRs).
Healthcare administrators face challenges in assessing an organization’s ability to adhere to SAFER guidelines. Without sufficient resources, it’s difficult to determine how secure an organization’s practices may be.
Additionally, facing a risk assessment can come with anxiety about the impending findings.
Despite those challenges, SAFER assessments help providers and organizations avoid compliance issues that can lead to fines or worse. With technical help, SAFER Guides consulting services can help any organization take those first steps and move toward a more secure practice.
Integrity Technology Solutions provides these services to help you overcome challenges and find compliance with the latest technologies. Our team can help you navigate SAFER assessments and ensure that your EHR systems are optimized for safety and compliance.
Our SAFER consulting services are designed to meet challenges head on. We’ll streamline compliance so you can focus on taking care of your patients.
Many providers appreciate patient engagement tools like texting and/or televisits. Patients seem to like those tools as well, as both are gaining popularity every year. Despite that, many providers struggle with compliance concerns. Are these technologies working within HIPAA and OCR guidelines? How do you ensure that communications are safe? Can providers really use the latest tools without running afoul of compliance?
A technical assessment can answer those questions clearly and put the most advanced tools in the hands of providers with confidence that all regulations are met (if not exceeded).
AI and cloud tools offer powerful resources to providers and their support staffs. Unfortunately, CMS and Congress struggle to keep up with rapidly changing technology, and the future of new technologies is unclear — especially as it relates to compliance.
We have experts on staff who specialize in compliance. They read bills and pending legislation to stay a step ahead of changes, and they disseminate that knowledge to you through our consulting services. We can help you pursue the most valuable technologies, and we can ensure quality security as you do.
Patients like electronic communications, but it adds a layer of complexity and uncertainty when you are charged with protecting their information. Providers are tasked with keeping text messages and emails safe (along with other electronic communications). Messages must reach the right recipient, and they have to be protected from malicious intruders.
SAFER consulting and assessment can review your processes and show you the exact steps needed to secure your electronic communications.
Many healthcare organizations struggle specifically with risk assessments. It calls on knowledge from entirely different industries, and it’s reasonable to need outside help. Despite the challenge, these assessments are critical. They spot vulnerabilities and help you prevent security breaches.
In fact, risk assessment failures are one of the leading reasons for OCR fines. Our risk assessments will show you what you need to be secure, and they can help you make those changes before you incur financial penalties.
Providers already have a specialty. It’s unfair to expect them to become cybersecurity experts on top of their workload. Yet, that’s what HIPAA demands.
With our SAFER Guides consulting services, you can outsource that expertise. Our team will make sure your providers understand the most important practices and principles to keep communications and records safe. Such streamlined education protects your organization while minimizing the burden it creates for providers — allowing them to focus on their patients.
MIPS dumps complexity right in your lap, and it offers minimal incentives to healthcare providers. Many opt out for these reasons. Despite that, risk assessments remain essential for MIPS participants and nonparticipants.
We can help you streamline compliance efforts and make MIPS participation easier and more beneficial.
Integrity is here to help. With expert guidance, comprehensive risk assessments, ongoing support, and education, we can get your organization compliant and protected for the future.
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