HIPAA Compliance

	ProActivity Reports is 100% HIPAA compliant.
	HIPAA, the Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act enacted by Congress in 1996, establishes regulations for the use and disclosure of Protected Health Information (PHI).
	PHI is any information about health status, provision of health care, or payment for health care that can be linked to an individual. This is interpreted broadly and includes any part of a patient’s medical record or payment history. For the complete text of the HIPAA regulations, please click here.
	In practice in the long-term care world, HIPAA translates into a collection of strict regulations protecting residents’ medical information. ProActivity Reports is 100% HIPAA compliant.
	Per the regulations, ProActivity Reports automatically logs out users who have left their computers idle, creates behind-the-scenes transaction logs for all updates to medical data, and has an emergency “break-glass” mechanism for retrieving resident medical information.
	ProActivity Reports is a multi-user networked system. Staff and volunteers are assigned their own password-protected accounts that they use to log in to the system.
	Further, ProActivity Reports’ role-based security system gives you very fine-grained control over what each user can see and do.
	For example, you might set up your system so that Volunteers can only get to your residents’ activity participation and attendance information, so they can help you with data entry, but are kept out of your residents’ medical information to protect their privacy.