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OCR Wants Feedback From Audited Covered Entities

by Dianne Bourque | Mintz Levin - Health Law on 3/20/2013

The Office for Civil Rights (OCR) is preparing to conduct an online survey of the 115 covered entities it audited in 2012 as part of the HITECH-mandated, pilot audit program. OCR hopes to use the survey results to evaluate...more

Audits, Audits And More Audits: Life In The Healthcare Industry

by Michael Volkov on 1/13/2013

Healthcare suppliers and service providers live in a regulated world. They are constantly under audit scrutiny. Sometimes federal agencies (i.e private contractors) conduct the audits; other times state agencies conduct the...more

Utilizing the HIPAA audit protocols as a compliance tool By Kimberly J. Gold

by Kimberly J. Gold | Mintz Levin - Health Law on 12/6/2012

Originally published in Compliance Today on December 1, 2012. ..Covered entities are now subject to privacy and security audits by OCR. ..OCR published audit protocols regarding its standards for such...more

HHS Publishes Roadmap for HIPAA Audits .

by Epstein Becker & Green, P.C. on 8/16/2012

One of the less well-known provisions of the Health Information Technology for Economic and Clinical Health (or "HITECH") Act[1] is the requirement that the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services ("HHS") periodically...more

Are You Ready? HIPAA Audits Are Here.

by Trenam Kemker on 8/13/2012

As part of health care reform, the federal government mandated that a pilot HIPAA audit program (the “HIPAA Audit Program”) be developed to ensure compliance with HIPAA’s privacy and security rules and its breach notification...more

Federal Government Releases Protocol for HIPAA Privacy, Security and Breach Notification Audits

by Trenam Kemker on 8/13/2012

On June 26, 2012, the Department of Health and Human Services (“HHS”) Office for Civil Rights (“OCR”) released on its website the protocol that it has developed to serve as a guideline for recently-implemented HIPAA...more

OCR Releases HIPAA Audit Protocol

by Morgan Lewis on 7/23/2012

Protocol provides clues regarding areas of focus for ongoing HIPAA audits assessing compliance with the Privacy, Security, and Breach Notification Rules. The Office for Civil Rights (OCR) at the Department of Health...more

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