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 ...

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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’ ...

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 ...

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’ ...

OCR's Deven McGraw spoke at last week's HIPAA summit. Federal regulators will start remote HIPAA compliance "desk audits" for business associates in November. And more comprehensive onsite audits of ...

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 ...