Questions tagged [hipaa]

Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act, subset of the ASC X12 EDI standard for to transfer of healthcare-related information.

HIPAA in this context refers to the data transmission standards mandated by the U.S. healthcare privacy act. It is based on the 004010 and 005010 versions of the X12 EDI standard, maintained by DISA.

The specific messages involve transferring inquiries, notifications, billing information and procedures between both healthcare providers (such as doctors, hospitals and other services) and billing agencies.

The Washington Publishing Company has the responsibility of publishing the actual standards documents.

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how to create Hipaa Compliant android app development in AWS?

I created an HealthCare android app using firebase, which is not Hipaa Compliant. I want to switch my app to a Hipaa compliant platform. What I found by searching is that buliding a Hipaa compliant application using AWS is going to be complex. Any…
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Firestore complaince Hipaa

I have a Health Care Application that deals with PHI and I am storing data on FireCloud. As Health Care Application needs to be HIPAA Compliant, and to be HIPAA Compliant there are certain steps to follow which mostly includes Encryption. Later i…
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How to securely connect to AWS DynamoDB or other aws database securely from a serverless app

I am building an application on Firebase, and some of the data needs to be HIPAA compliant. My initial idea was to connect to AWS DynamoDB (HIPAA compliant) from Firebase Cloud Functions, but then I realized that the data would be passing through…
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When can we allow a CTX segment to be part of 999 Acknowledgement

I need to understand when can we allow a CTX segment to be part of 005010X231-999 Acknowledgement. What I see is an error occured for a required data element. In this case can the CTX be shown to represent the error? Or will we show the CTX segment…
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Does HIPAA require to log ALL queries to the database (including calls from JDBC)?

We use Postgres. After setting log_statement=all, it'll only log queries from psql, not from the application accessing it via JDBC. I find this a bit counter-intuitive. Isn't ~95% of data access in an application done via JDBC (or something similar…
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How to generate x12 file by hand

I work for a small healthcare company. We use a simple browser-based gui to create our healthcare claims. Recently our number of claims has grown. To make things easier, we'd like to be able to batch bill our claims now. We only do 1 type of…
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How can I have one Party in BizTalk use two different GS02 segments for the same EDI Message type?

I have a connection to an EDI clearinghouse to whom I send X12 270 documents using BizTalk 2009. The "Information Source" for these 270s can be either of two depending on a variety of factors. For one Information Source, the clearinghouse requires…
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C# XML Deserializer fails to deserialize Child Node

I have an XSD and a class generated by XSD.EXE I'm using to deserialize an XML document. For some reason, a node fairly deep into the XML document is failing to deserialize, and I can't find why it would be doing so... Here's how I'm…
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How to persist ipython notebook without persisting output?

I have an ipython notebook that I invoke through Django's shell_plus --notebook command. I would like to save the notebook, meaning the code cells, without saving the output that follows each code cell. I use this notebook to do analytics and…
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Using HDInsight with encrypted data

I'm considering using HDInsight to process data that must be encrypted at rest. I'm still in the early research phase, but I assume I can add a map step that does the decryption. Am I way off base here, or is this a viable path forward? Also, what…
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MySQL Database Security for Sensitive Data

I am working on enhancing security in our MySQL database. Specifically, the database stores health information for our clients' patients (so-called PHI), and we would like to separate the patients' names and other identifying information from their…
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Hipaa Compliant Server

I have an instance in Amazon EC2 and need to be Hipaa compliant. I have two doubts, Should I need to do a block level encryption of the database storage. Should I need to encrypt sensitive data before storing in the database. Best database software…
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Plesk Panel Email HIPAA Compliance

We are looking to create a HIPAA compliant email server using a plesk panel server. Is it possible to create a HIPAA compliant email server with this?
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eMedNy Soap Interop: Eligibility Fault

I've been working on setting up a Soap Client to consume eMedNy's services as per their instructions. This is what I'm currently doing: string _270Msg = "..."; // 270 Message // convert string to array of bytes byte [] bytes = new…
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Is there a way to validate a a BizTalk HIPAA message before the disassembler?

We have a solution that receives HIPAA X12 files using the Multiple schema, then splits them and sends them on to the orchestration. Occasionally the client will send a file with a structural error somewhere in the middle, and the message will be…
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