The five office guidelines for complying with HIPAA if you are working at the front desk and have patients and/or office visitors in the waiting room are:
1. Put someone in charge with
responsibility to implement the Privacy Rule.
2. Keep Protected Health Information (PHI) secure and private.
3. Set up office policy, implementation procedures and training for your staff.
4. Inform patients of their rights and support those rights.:inform your patients of their privacy rights under the HIPAA Privacy Rule
5. Limit access of patient information to businesses outside the practice:don’t sell your patient information to outside companies without the patients’ consent.
