Whether or not you are a healthcare service provider, the Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act (HIPAA) will have an impact on your business, because it has an impact on the document imaging that improves your business operations.

The purpose of HIPAA is to protect patients’ rights to privacy of their medical information. HIPAA has very strict security requirements regarding access to medical files, including:

• File encryption
• Access controls
• Tracking mechanisms
• Alarm reporting

Document imaging provides the best method to carry out the document management conditions described in HIPAA. Document imaging service companies, therefore, have been working to make their services fully compliant with current HIPAA regulations.