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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

Your article was successfully shared with the contacts you provided. Since 2003, insurance agents and brokers have been required by law to meet Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act of ...

According to an Anesthesia Business Consultants blog post, HHS’ Office for Civil Rights plans to audit 350 covered entities in phase 2 of the HIPAA audits and while the chances of an anesthesia group ...

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 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 ...

Accure launches ComplianceAI to streamline compliance workflows, improve audit accuracy, and support FSMA, HIPAA, PCI, NIST, SOC2, ISO, GDPR and more. NIST, SOC 2, FSMA, and PCI are complex to assess ...

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 ...