2-5-2003
Local firm helps healthcare businesses
become HIPAA ready

Kimbel Morrow & Associates is a Kitsap County firm focusing on HIPAA compliance for the healthcare industry.

The company’s teams have been working with various aspects of the Healthcare Insurance Portability and Accountability Act for several years including transactions, privacy, and security. The company’s work can be viewed at www.hipaasolution.net.

In addition Kimbel Morrow hosts three-hour seminars that provide complete and reasonable solutions to HIPAA for the healthcare environment. In the preparation of the compliance seminar presentations, the company exhaustively reviews each privacy and security regulation and prepares a reasonable solution for each, based upon the size of the healthcare office or organization.

LEGATO Systems, Inc. a worldwide leader in enterprise content and storage management software, has entered into a joint marketing agreement with KM&A to provide HIPAA assessment services, tools and training for small to mid-size healthcare providers.

In order to focus on small to mid-size providers who need cost-effective solutions and tools, KM&A has forged alliances with other professional organizations such as the Washington State Medical Association, WebClaim, and Electronic Insurance Services. In addition, KM&A was the project leader for HIPAA User Acceptance of Premera’s 11 Legacy and Vendor Adjudication Systems.