The Department of Health and Human Services' Office for Civil Rights has published the official protocol for ongoing HIPAA compliance audits, offering a detailed breakdown of audit procedures. See ...

As a part of its continued efforts to assess compliance with the Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act (HIPAA) Privacy, Security, and Breach ...

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 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 Office for Civil Rights has begun its second wave of HIPAA audits and already the question is arising: Will the program actually succeed in its effort to improve privacy and security practices and ...

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 ...

Publication of the long-awaited HIPAA FINAL Security Rule in February didn’t exactly create the frenzy of a new Harry Potter novel hitting the bookshelves. Health-care CIOs were, after all, busy ...

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 ...

After long delays, a random HIPAA Compliance Audit program is finally getting under way; up to 150 covered entities will be audited in 2012, and being prepared in advance is essential. Areas Covered ...