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OIG Recommends Changes to HIPAA Audit Program to Strengthen Data Protections, Implications for Regulated Entities

Brooks Pierce on 12/5/2024

The Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) Office for Civil Rights (OCR) is required by law to perform periodic audits of covered entities and business associates to ensure their compliance with HIPAA Security Rule...more

[Event] Healthcare Privacy Compliance Academy - January 27th - 30th, Orlando, FL

Health Care Compliance Association (HCCA) on 11/20/2024

HCCA's Healthcare Privacy Compliance Academy is a three-and-a-half-day interactive education program with a focus on the vast body of privacy laws and regulations in place to help you protect PHI and other critical data. Our...more

[Event] Healthcare Privacy Compliance Academy - July 15th - 18th, Charlotte, NC

Health Care Compliance Association (HCCA) on 3/13/2024

Ideal for professionals with some compliance knowledge and experience, HCCA’s Healthcare Privacy Compliance Academy offers practitioners a deeper understanding of effective compliance management in a healthcare setting. The...more

OCR Cybersecurity Newsletter Emphasizes Significance of HIPAA Sanction Policies

Mintz - Health Care Viewpoints on 10/23/2023

The Office for Civil Rights (OCR) recently offered covered entities and business associates (Regulated Entities) not-so-subtle reminders in its October 2023 Cybersecurity Newsletter that effective sanction policies can...more

Safeguards in New National Network Include Insurance, App Mandates, Cybersecurity Council

Health Care Compliance Association (HCCA) on 2/14/2022

Report on Patient Privacy 22, no. 2 (February, 2022) - The new national health information network calls for a number of privacy and security safeguards and standards that, in some instances, exceed what HIPAA covered...more

Data-Harvesting Zombie Hackers, Blood-Thirsty Auditors, and Other Reasons to be Scared on Halloween

Mintz - Health Care Viewpoints on 10/30/2015

This Halloween, the scariest monsters might not be in your closet or under your bed. They may be overseas, orchestrating intrusions into your electronic medical record. Or they may be lurking in your own workforce, carrying...more

OIG Reports Insufficient Oversight Of HIPAA Compliance

King & Spalding on 10/12/2015

The HHS Office for Civil Rights (OCR) must improve its oversight and enforcement of patient information privacy and security rules by “covered entities” and their business associates under the Health Information Portability...more

Office of Civil Rights Delays Phase 2 Audits

Parker Poe Adams & Bernstein LLP on 2/26/2015

The Office of Civil RIghts (“OCR”) recently announced that Phase 2 of the HIPAA audits would be further delayed because the audit portals and project management tools that are needed to initiate the audit process are not...more

OCR to Begin Phase 2 of HIPAA Audit Program

McDermott Will & Emery on 7/30/2014

The U.S. Department of Health and Human Services’ Office for Civil Rights (OCR) will soon begin a second phase of audits (Phase 2 Audits) of compliance with Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act of 1996 (HIPAA)...more

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