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 ...
Plans to launch some onsite HIPAA compliance audits are now on hold while the agency that enforces HIPAA completes more than 200 desk audit reports, says Deven McGraw, deputy director of the ...
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 ...
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 ...
The U.S. Department of Health and Human Services has quietly resumed HIPAA compliance audits of covered entities and business associates for the first time in nearly a decade. See Also: Using the ...
Irvine, CA, January 28, 2015 (Newswire.com) - In what may come as a relief for several healthcare providers, there is still an uncertainty about when the next round of HIPAA audits will actually start ...
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 ...
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," ...
Maintaining HIPAA compliance should always be a key area for leaders in the healthcare industry, but as technology continues to evolve, there are numerous factors coming into play that could affect ...