Compliancy Group has confirmed Referral Ease has implemented an effective HIPAA compliance program. Cheshire, CT-based Referral Ease was recently formed with the goal of eliminating referrals paperwork and reducing frustration and appointment-related stress for patients and healthcare professionals.
The company was founded by Dr. Hugh Finch Jr. DDS, MBA, in response to the lack of a comprehensive, HIPAA-compliant digital platform for managing patient referrals.
“After searching the web and seeking advice from colleagues, Dr. Finch, founder of Referral Ease, was unable to find a truly comprehensive platform for eliminating paper referrals. That’s when Dr. Finch shared his dilemma with his business partner and co-founder of Referral Ease Together, they created the most comprehensive and HIPPA compliant solution for one of the last paper processes in Dentistry… referrals.”
Since HIPAA-regulated information is fed into the platform, safeguards are required to ensure patient privacy and the security of protected health information. To ensure that those safeguards were implemented along with all appropriate policies and procedures, Referral Ease sought assistance from Compliancy Group.
Compliancy Group has developed a HIPAA compliance methodology that has been used by many HIPAA-regulated entities to ensure compliance with all appropriate provisions of the HIPAA Rules. Clients follow that process and track their progress along their compliance journeys using Compliancy Group’s proprietary compliance-tracking software solution – The Guard.
After completing that process, which includes a 6-stage risk analysis and remediation process, Compliancy Group’s HIPAA subject matter experts assessed Referral Ease’s good faith effort toward HIPAA compliance and confirmed the company has implemented an effective HIPAA compliance program and is compliant with all appropriate provisions of the HIPAA Privacy Rule, Security Rule, Breach Notification Rule, Omnibus Rule, and the HITECH Act.
Compliancy Group clients that pass the assessments are awarded the HIPAA Seal of Compliance. The HIPAA Seal of Compliance demonstrates to current and future clients that a company is committed to privacy and security and has an effective program in place to ensure future compliance.
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