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 ...

As detailed in our latest webinar, “Daunting but doable: Preparing for the next round of HIPAA audits,” the Office for Civil Rights (OCR) has begun implementing the first full-phase HIPAA audit ...

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 ...

New federal guidance designed to describe the processes in the current round of HIPAA compliance audits - which could lay the groundwork for future rounds of audits - illustrates the massive amount 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 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 ...

The Office for Civil Rights, which oversees HIPAA enforcement, should improve its program for auditing compliance with the privacy and security law, according to a report published Monday by the HHS’ ...

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 ...

The Department of Health and Human Services’ Office of Civil Rights has announced it will be launching phase two of the Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act audit program. Advisers can ...

Redactable, an AI-driven web application built to redact sensitive documents quickly and permanently, today announced its successful completion of their Type 2 SOC 2 and HIPAA audits as of January 1, ...

An audit of Atlantas Piedmont Hospital that was quietly initiated by the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services in March is raising concerns in the health care industry about the prospect of ...

Law360, New York (March 29, 2016, 11:08 AM EDT) -- On March 21, 2016, the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services' Office for Civil Rights announced it was beginning its next round of audits of ...