ecfirst.com is a leader with rich hands-on experience delivering world-class services in the areas of:
- Security regulatory compliance solutions (HIPAA, FISMA, Sarbanes-Oxley)
- Compliance training and certification
- Service Oriented Architecture (SOA) consulting and development
- Professional staffing, including project management
Regulatory Compliance Practice
The ecfirst.com Regulatory Compliance Practice delivers deep expertise with its full suite of services that include contingency planning/Business Impact Analysis (BIA), vulnerability assessment, as well as managed security and IT infrastructure solutions.
Compliance and Training certification
ecfirst.com, home of the HIPAA Academy, offers the gold standard in compliance training. The HIPAA CHA™, CHP certifications are the only recognized certifications recognized in the Industry.
SOA Professional Services Practice
The ecfirst.com Service Oriented Architecture (SOA) Professional Services Practice specializes in assisting clients design, architect and implement SOA solutions for the enterprise. The team has significant experience with SOA-related methodologies, products, technologies and frameworks.
Professional Staffing Practice
The ecfirst.com Professional Staffing Practice excels in meeting your short and long term requirements for contract professionals in the areas of Web development, IT and project management. This practice is distinguished with credentialed staff (PMP, CBCP, or CISSP) that includes deep industry knowledge in the healthcare, financial and government markets.
ecfirst.com assists all types of organizations with their compliance initiatives for a secure information infrastructure that is compliant with regulation requirements. ecfirst.com can help you with your compliance challenges and priorities. ecfirst.com solutions help your organization implement the security safeguards required as a result of the legislation requirements.
ecfirst.com, an Inc. 500 business, serves a Who’s
Who client list that includes U.S.
Veterans Agency, numerous hospitals, state and
county governments (State of Oregon, Iowa,, Illinois),
and hundreds of other organizations. ecfirst.com
HIPAA Training Solutions are endorsed by the Illinois Hospital
Association (IHA).
2006 marks the start of our seventh year of operation. We understand that if, and only if, we deliver exceptional value to your organization in every instance of our engagement, will we be able to have you as a customer for life. All our work is executed with deep knowledge of your industry and compliance requirements by quality staff with certifications that substantiate their expertise. We are always striving to earn your trust.
Talk to ecfirst.com and you will find an organization that is passionate about its services, devoted to its clients, with one of the highest quality staff In the industry. For more information, please visit http://www.ecfirst.com.
About HIPAA Academy
HIPAA Academy delivers compliance solutions across the United States every day. Our significant knowledge of the HIPAA, FISMA and Sarbanes-Oxley regulations is substantiated with hands-on experience implementing technical solutions in the healthcare industry. The HIPAA Academy introduced the industry's first, and today’s leading, credentials for HIPAA skills certification: Certified HIPAA Professional (CHP) and Certified HIPAA Administrator™ (CHA™).
Certified HIPAA Professional (CHP)
- The Certified HIPAA Professional certification training helps you better understand HIPAA's Administrative Simplification Act as well as how to create a framework for initiating and working towards a blueprint for HIPAA compliance. From this boot camp, you will learn the following about HIPAA:
- Understand why HIPAA requirements will cause significant changes in policies, procedures and processes within the organization in the handling of patient records.
- Examine how implementing HIPAA will affect the way healthcare entities organize their staff to achieve and monitor compliance with patient privacy/confidentiality needs.
- Step through qualifications and positioning strategies for a Chief Privacy Officer and requirements for a Chief Security Officer.
- Learn why HIPAA compliance is better focused as a business issue than as an IT issue, although IT will play a major role in implementing compliant systems.
- Review specific requirements and implementation features within each security category.
- Step through how to plan and prepare for HIPAA compliance. HIPAA is about awareness first, assessment second and finally action focused on gaps identified.
Certified HIPAA Administrator™ (CHA™)
In this 1-Day HIPAA Administrator boot camp we examine the impact of the legislation from the perspective of end users, such as nurses and administrators, responsible for delivering and supporting health-care related services. From this Certified HIPAA Administrator™ Training you will learn the following about HIPAA:
- Overview of the HIPAA legislation and its impact on patients, providers and payment services.
- Understand changes that impact patient and medical records.
- Examine requirements for privacy of patient and payment information.
- Understand security requirements for all electronic medical information and systems.
- Analyze templates to get started with privacy compliance requirements.
- Examine key steps such as Gap Analysis and Remediation to initiate Privacy Rule-related projects and activities.
For more information, please visit
http://www.HIPAAacademy.Net.
