Best Practice Library

HIPAA Best Practices Library

The HIPAA Program Office is committed to fostering a corporate culture that promotes and reinforces patient privacy and information security principles and practices. One way to accomplish this is to identify "Best Practices" and share them with UCMC departments and locations.

Best Practices are tools such as signs, flyers, labels, stickers, checklists, or procedures. They are intended to further assist UCMC in its HIPAA compliance efforts and to help promote consistent ways that UCMC departments and locations can protect patient privacy and confidentiality without having to "reinvent the wheel."

Below are links to a "Best Practices Library." Check back monthly as we will continue to add documents for your use.

If you wish to modify the materials to fit a specific need or situation, we ask that you contact the HIPAA Program Office at 4-9716 or HPO@bsd.uchicago.edu, to discuss your proposed changes before you use the document. If you have Best Practices you would like to share, please let us know and we will add them to the library.

Signs (click here to view inventory of signs on topics listed below)

Faxing PHI
Preventing conversations about PHI from being overheard
Proper storage and disposal of items containing PHI
Protecting PHI from public viewing
Safeguarding computer workstations and portable devices that contain PHI
Third party communications (verbal and written)

Checklists (click here to view inventory of checklists on topics listed below)

Faxing PHI
Back to the Rack

Procedures (click here to view inventory of procedures on topics listed below)

Accounting of Disclosures (AOD)