HHS Office for Civil Rights (OCR) recently issued guidance addressing its approach to the 2016 Phase II HIPAA Desk Audits. In its announcement of the guidance, OCR emphasized the broader applicability ...

A recent district court case in Missouri may allow patients to use the Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act as a basis of a private cause of action in state courts, according to a ...

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 ...

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 ...

The Department of Health and Human Services Office for Civil Rights on Monday initiated the second phase of its HIPAA Audit Program. Speaking at the 24th National HIPAA Summit in the District of ...

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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 ...

OCR's Deven McGraw spoke at last week's HIPAA summit. Federal regulators will start remote HIPAA compliance "desk audits" for business associates in November. And more comprehensive onsite audits of ...

December typically ushers in a final round of enforcement actions by the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services' (HHS) Office of Civil Rights (OCR), and 2024 is no exception. This Holland & ...

Privacy-first form platform becomes the only solution offering region selection at account creation — giving healthcare ...