The New OCR HIPAA Audit Protocol: What You Need to Know
The New OCR HIPAA Audit Protocol What's Changed. What's New. How to Prepare. WEBINAR - April 15th @ 2 pm ET/11 am PT CLICK to REGISTER The new OCR HIPAA Audit Protocol, published on April 1st, is highly instructive. It offers important insight into the "enforcement...
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OCR HIPAA Desk Audits: It’s all in the documentation
We've been talking and blogging about them for months...the forthcoming OCR HIPAA Desk Audits. It comes down to one thing...your program documentation. When most CCOs, CPOs and CISOs we talk to think about documentation, they believe that they stand on solid ground...
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North Memorial Health Care OCR Settlement – Lessons in HIPAA BA Management
“Two major cornerstones of the HIPAA Rules were overlooked by this entity,” said Jocelyn Samuels, Director of the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) Office for Civil Rights (OCR). “Organizations must have in place compliant business associate...
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AHIMA Hosting an Information Governance Leadership Forum
AHIMA continues it's ongoing education of Information Governance to the various stakeholders in healthcare. One of their upcoming events takes aim at healthcare leaders. This one day event in Washington, DC kicks off with Lynne Thomas Gordon, CEO of AHIMA followed...
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Healthcare Breaches – An Infographic Already Out-of-Date
I love a good infographic - one that actually coalesces and communicates "bite-sized" facts that a person can use in his/her own communications. This infographic, published LightCyber, offers a couple of really important points for healthcare security, audit and...
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OCR Continues to Publish Guidance re: HIPAA
The Office for Civil Rights (OCR) has stepped up its efforts to provide practical guidance around HIPAA for the industry in its new blog series, "The Real HIPAA" and supporting fact sheets on the topics addressed in the blog. Healthcare has been starving for this kind...
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