While some of the legal requirements on your organization can seem overly burdensome, there are times when legal requirements also align nicely with what makes good business sense. Risk assessments in the healthcare industry...more
Dive into a broad spectrum of topics affecting healthcare organizations. Explore the latest laws, regulations, and developments to help you effectively manage your organization’s privacy compliance program. Our Academies are...more
Medical practices that routinely use laser technology are subject to some of the same legal issues as other types of practices. Use of lasers creates additional compliance issues and highlights certain compliance risk areas....more
The Office of Civil Rights (OCR) recently uploaded two items of interest: information regarding the largest penalty to date against a single entity, Advocate Health Care Network (Advocate), and HIPAA Phase II Desk Audit...more
The Office of Civil Rights (OCR) recently updated the audit protocol that it will be using to assess Covered Entities’ and Business Associate’s compliance with the Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act (HIPAA)...more
The world of privacy grows every day as more data goes through the cloud. The new trends and weekly data breaches make conferences like the Global Privacy Summit all the more relevant. Earlier this month we went to...more
On March 21, 2016, the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services, Office for Civil Rights (“OCR”) announced that it has begun its phase 2 Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act (“HIPAA”) audit program. In...more
The Phase 2 audit program for HIPAA compliance now is underway — and financial institutions are on the list as potential targets. Many financial institutions are business associates under HIPAA, usually because of their...more
The Office of Civil Rights (OCR) within the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (DHHS) recently announced that it has initiated Phase 2 of its audit program to assess Covered Entities’ and Business Associate’s...more
For our HIPAA-covered entity readers, we have asked these questions before: Have you taken a business associate inventory? Have you undertaken a comprehensive risk assessment as required by HIPAA?...more