| Press Release: HIPAA Contingency Planning Template Suite launched by Supremus Group will help covered entities to saving thousands of dollars and jumpstart their project.
Des Moines, IA -- 04/04/06 -- Supremus Group LLC, the leading provider of HIPAA compliance solutions and training, announced today that it has released HIPAA Contingency Planning Template Suite. The templates are categorized into three phases: Phase One: Implementing a HIPAA Security Contingency Program, Phase Two: Implementing Policies and Standards, and Phase Three: Final HIPAA Contingency Plan Documents.
The HIPAA Security Rule 164.308(a)(7)(i) identifies Contingency Plan as a standard under Administrative Safeguards. Contingency Planning means the overall process of developing an approved set of arrangements and procedures to insure your business can respond to a disaster and resume its critical business functions within a required time frame objective. The primary objective is to reduce the level of risk and cost to you and the impact on your staff, customers and suppliers.
"Contingency Planning is a serious concern for covered entities," said Bob Mehta, President and CEO, Supremus Group. "HIPAA Contingency Planning Template Suite provides a cost-effective, comprehensive and self-sufficient solution for developing complete Contingency Plan. Through this product, we help to ensure full compliance for contingency plan requirement of HIPAA Security rule."
Contingency Planning templates for covered entities can jumpstart HIPAA Contingency Plan project which includes Business Impact Analysis, Business Continuity & Disaster Recovery Planning, Emergency Mode Operation Plan and many other documents. These templates will save a lot of money and time for covered entities. HIPAA Contingency Plan templates suite has more than 100 documents that have been customized to help meet following requirement of the HIPAA Security Rule standards and associated implementation specifications.
| HIPAA Citation |
HIPAA Security Rule Standard
Implementation Specification |
Implementation |
ADMINISTRATIVE SAFEGUARDS |
164.308(a)(7)(i) |
Contingency Plan |
- |
164.308(a)(7)(ii)(A) |
Data Backup Plan |
Required |
164.308(a)(7)(ii)(B) |
Disaster Recovery Plan |
Required |
164.308(a)(7)(ii)(C) |
Emergency Mode Operation Plan |
Required |
164.308(a)(7)(ii)(D) |
Testing and Revision Procedures |
Addressable |
164.308(a)(7)(ii)(E) |
Applications and Data Criticality Analysis |
Addressable |
PHYSICAL SAFEGUARDS |
164.310(a)(1) |
Facility Access Controls |
- |
164.310(a)(2)(i) |
Contingency Operations |
Addressable |
164.310(d)(1) |
Device and Media Controls |
- |
164.310(d)(2)(iv) |
Data Backup and Storage |
Addressable |
TECHNICAL SAFEGUARDS |
164.312(a)(1) |
Access Control |
- |
164.312(a)(2)(ii) |
Emergency Access Procedure |
Required |
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About Supremus Group LLC
Supremus Group is focused on the compliance training, consulting and business process outsourcing services. Company’s aim is to offer practical, customized and affordable solutions for compliance. Focus of www.Training-HIPAA.Net website is on helping healthcare organizations meet compliance, in a timely and cost effective manner by offering a broad portfolio of products and services to help with HIPAA Compliance. Supremus provides HIPAA compliance kits, manuals, training, templates and compliance consulting services to help organization’s HIPAA compliance efforts successful, self sufficient and cost-effective. |
