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 ...
The Department of Health and Human Services' Office for Civil Rights has published the official protocol for ongoing HIPAA compliance audits, offering a detailed breakdown of audit procedures. See ...
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 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 Department of Health and Human Services’ Office of Civil Rights has announced it will be launching phase two of the Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act audit program. Advisers can ...
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 ...
The American Health Information Management Association has released its new “External HIPAA Audit Readiness Toolkit,” which helps organizations prepare for HIPAA Phase 2 audits. Since last year, HHS’ ...
Whether your audit process is driven by DISA STIGS, RMF, NIST FISMA, GDPR, PCI DSS, HIPAA, or SOX, detailed reporting is a critical success factor for compliance. Knowing and reporting on data access ...
A long-overdue report on findings from a HIPAA compliance audit program conducted in 2016 and 2017 illustrates shortcomings that, unfortunately, are still common today. Those include the failure to ...
The Department of Health and Human Services announced good-news/bad-news changes to its HIPAA audit program this week. Regulators are planning to delay the second phase of their audit program until ...
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 ...