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June 28, 2013

ControlCase Offers Compliance with HIPAA Omnibus Rule as a Service


ControlCase — a global provider of compliance as a service (CaaS), certifications and IT Governance, Risk and Compliance (GRC) software — has had an impressive year so far. For example, in January, the company announced that it experienced a customer growth rate of nearly 60 percent in 2012, bringing its client base up to over 400 from 250. More recently, it released the latest version of its ControlCase Data Discovery (CCD) credit card data discovery software.

The company is keeping the ball rolling with the introduction of a CaaS certification program meant to help impacted companies comply with the Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act (HIPAA) in accordance with the new Omnibus Rule.

This rule, which went into effect as of March 2013, aims to enhance patient privacy protection, provide new rights to health information for individuals, and strengthen the government's ability to enforce the law. While prior HIPAA Privacy and Security Rules focused on health providers and health plan entities, these new changes expand many requirements to the business associates of these entities that receive protected health information.

Non-compliance based on negligence can lead to a penalty of up to $1.5 million per violation.

Fortunately, ControlCase's service can help clients achieve and maintain compliance with HIPAA, while helping them verify and manage their business associates that are now subject to the rule. In fact, ControlCase is already helping some of the largest organizations subject to these standards, including one of the nation's leading health and wellness solution providers, stay compliant.

“The HIPAA Omnibus Rule became effective on March 26th 2013. Many companies are already hard at work challenged with achieving compliance before the September deadline this year. Our turnkey managed solution is ideally suited for such companies,” said Kishor Vaswani, CEO of ControlCase.

The unique hybrid technology employed in the ControlCase HIPAA CaaS offers a high degree of value for customer, enabling them to integrate compliance as an incessant program.




Edited by Alisen Downey
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