The American Health Information Management Association (AHIMA) published a new toolkit to help healthcare organizations prepare for Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act (HIPAA) Phase 2 ...
According to an Anesthesia Business Consultants blog post, HHS’ Office for Civil Rights plans to audit 350 covered entities in phase 2 of the HIPAA audits and while the chances of an anesthesia group ...
The Office for Civil Rights has begun its second wave of HIPAA audits and already the question is arising: Will the program actually succeed in its effort to improve privacy and security practices and ...
The OCR recently announced the beginning of the next phase of the HIPAA Privacy, Security, and Breach Notification Audit Program and indicated that it will review the ...
The Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act (or HIPAA) sets the standards for protecting sensitive patient data. To protect yourself from liabilities, any outside vendor you work with must ...
As the Department of Health and Human Services' Office for Civil Rights gears up to begin its next round of HIPAA compliance audits, security and privacy experts are giving OCR's plans mixed reviews.
The U.S. Department of Health and Human Services Office for Civil Rights (OCR) recently announced that the agency expects to begin Phase 2 Audits in early 2016. OCR intends to conduct desk audits and ...