HHS Office for Civil Rights (OCR) recently issued guidance addressing its approach to the 2016 Phase II HIPAA Desk Audits. In its announcement of the guidance, OCR emphasized the broader applicability ...
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 HHS Office for Civil Rights resumed its HIPAA audit program in December 2024 after a seven-year hiatus. During the 2024-2025 audits, OCR plans to review the HIPAA compliance efforts of 50 covered ...
Linda Sanches, OCR senior adviser, discusses compliance audits at HIPAA conference. Will the Department of Health and Human Services under the Trump administration create a permanent HIPAA compliance ...
Phase 2 Audits of Business Associates: The Department of Health and Human Services, Office for Civil Rights (OCR) is in the process of conducting its phase 2 audits of Covered Entities and Business ...
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 ...
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 ...
Investigations by the Office for Civil Rights related to compliance with the Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act will no longer be initiated by only complaints and self-reported ...
Healthcare organizations are under pressure to automate medical coding without compromising the security of protected health information. Deploying an AI medical coding platform introduces new data ...
LAS VEGAS--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Sharetru, a leader in the managed file transfer technology space, today announced it has successfully completed its HIPAA (Health Insurance Portability and Accountability ...
Congress voted in 2009 as part of the HITECH Act to require the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services' Office for Civil Rights to perform periodic HIPAA audits on regulated healthcare ...
So what's next for HIPAA enforcement efforts by the Department of Health and Human Services' Office for Civil Rights? OCR director Roger Sevrino says there is "no slowdown in our enforcement efforts," ...