CCH offers online HIPAA security guide.(Database Notes)(Brief Article)

CCH Inc. of Riverwoods, Ill., has released the HIPAA Security Guide, comprehensive HIPAA security information available in both online media and loose-leaf formats, to help subscribers comply with security rules.

According to CCH, the guide helps subscribers learn the appropriate physical, administrative and technical measures needed to follow the HIPAA security rules. Users of the guide will access to a regularly updated loose-leaf volume containing the following: summary of HIPAA security rules, detailed analysis of HHS comment released with a practical glossary, implementation tools and documents, customizable model policies and procedures for adaptation by the provider as a covered entity, technical safeguards, organizational requirements and state pre-emption analysis.

In addition to the printed guide, CCH said subscribers gain electronic access to HIPAA security forms, policies and procedures that can easily be downloaded and customized through CCH's Internet Research NetWork. For example, they can see what a sample policy and procedure on the electronic data transmission rules look like and can modify it electronically for their own use. CCH said subscribers also receive late-breaking HIPAA news and access to the company's search engine to retrieve items of special interest.

Call: CCH, 800-449-9525. See: www.health.cch.com/onlinestore