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 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 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 ...

This guide includes everything employers need to know about HIPAA requirements, as well as a HIPAA compliance checklist.

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’ ...

Focus on the “spirit” of the audit. It is very easy to follow the audit protocol as a checklist, but when a hospital’s only goal is to be compliant; they may miss the “spirit” of the audit and ...

Those shortcomings found in remote “desk audits” of 166 covered entities and 41 business associates are still often cited by the Department of Health and Human Services in its Office for Civil Rights’ ...

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 ...

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.

In examining how the Office of Civil Rights administered its periodic Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act audit program from January 2016 through December 2020, the U.S. Department of ...