HIPAA Regulations and Document Destruction:

• HIPAA compliance is not the place to cut corners.
• ShredAssured will provide you with secure solutions to meet HIPAA requirements.

The Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act (HIPAA) enacted in 1996 includes provisions to safeguard the privacy of patient health records. The HIPAA rules apply to all protected health information whether it is kept electronically, on paper, or communicated orally. Hospitals, individual doctors, pharmacies, and other businesses involved in the healthcare industry are currently in the process of designing procedures that will comply with the new HIPAA rules.

The final rule, Standards for Privacy of Individually Identifiable Health Information, was published December 2000. This rule implements the privacy requirements of the administrative simplification section of HIPAA. The standard requires that "covered entities put in place the administrative, technical, and physical safeguards to protect the privacy of protected health information." Although the rule does not prescribe the particular measures that covered entities must take to meet this standard, it does state some "examples of appropriate safeguards." One example is "requiring that documents containing protected health information be shredded prior to disposal."

ShredAssured is currently working with organizations that fall under the mandates of HIPAA.  As a member of the National Association for Information Destruction, ShredAssured maintains the highest standards for Quality, Security and Service to assist you in meeting HIPAA security safeguards. To ensure that our clients meet HIPAA standards we provide on-site shredding services encompassing strict written procedures, an audit trail, and a Certificate of Destruction. 

• Free Secure Collection Containers and comprehensive shredding programs
• On-site Shredding Services
• Bonded and Insured
• Certificate of Destruction
• Custodial Audit Trail