The Administrative Simplification regulations of the Healthcare Insurance Portability and Accountability Act (HIPAA) establish compliance standards for security, electronic transactions and privacy of patient's health in relation to transactions in the healthcare industry.

HealthQuist has undertaken extensive efforts to become compliant with HIPAA requirements and is completely compliant with all the HIPAA regulations. HealthQuist has engaged in the following efforts to ensure compliancy with HIPAA's rules and regulations:

• Written code of conduct, procedures and policies that are updated on a regular basis.
• Each employee signs a notice of confidentiality.
• Background checks are performed on each new potential employee.
• Intensive scrutiny of all Internet activity, including detailed technology policies, data management, robust password policy, workstation security policy and more.
• All of our billing practices are compliant with current industry standards, and our auditing and reporting systems are regularly reviewed for compliance as well.
• Our policies are mapped to regulatory requirements.
• A Compliance Officer who fully monitors and controls all the activity around compliance and monitoring within the organization.
• Limited access to data, portable media such as hard drives, USB and CDs.