Getting ready for and responding to HIPAA audits can be a daunting task for many hospitals and health systems, but a panel of security and privacy professionals have two words of advice: Prepare and ...

Much like a tornado watch, the conditions appear to be right for a coming storm: the upcoming Phase 2 HIPAA audits. The Department of Health and Human Services Office for Civil Rights (OCR) has begun ...

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 ...

Hospitals, physician practices, and other healthcare entities have long been subject to a variety of sometimes random audits. For example, IRS audits, payer audits by Medicare or private insurance ...

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 ...

> In order to prepare for a HIPAA audit, hospital officials would be wise to not only become familiar with audit protocol, but also to run their own internal mock audits, according to Matt Jackson, a ...

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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’ ...

Financial organizations that are business associates can expect a wave of HIPAA desk audits to evaluate the HIPAA compliance efforts of business associates. These audits have a limited focus and are ...

HHS’ Office for Civil Rights recently released the details of round two of its HIPAA compliance audit program, and in this round, any covered entity and any business associate of a covered entity are ...