Oct 27, 2016 | Audit, Breach, HIPAA Fine, HIPAA Violations, HSN
HealthIT Security has a very good article on OCR HIPAA activities. A key message is that not all OCR complaints result in HIPAA violations OCR will continue to focus “its enforcement efforts and its resources” in areas of alleged non-compliance and “where corrective...
Sep 27, 2016 | Breach, Business Associates, HIPAA Fine, HIPAA Violations, HSN
In a clear message to healthcare organizations, The U.S. Department of Health and Human Services Office of Civil Rights (OCR), fined Women & Infants Hospital of Rhode Island (WIH) for not having updated HIPAA Business Associate Agreements. WIH provided OCR with a...
Aug 11, 2016 | Breach, Business Associate, Business Associates, HIPAA Fine, HIPAA Violations, HSN
Almost all software programs have bugs in their code. The bugs may be security holes, problems displaying pages on mobile devices or inaccurately displaying results in reports to name a few. So it should be no shock that electronic health record (EHR) systems...
Jul 12, 2016 | Audit, HIPAA Audits, HIPAA Fine, HSN
Back in March, we reported that OCR had announced its Phase 2 Audit Program. When we last heard from OCR about Phase 2 HIPAA Audits, we saw that emails were being sent to Covered Entities and Business Associates. The purpose of the emails was to verify and...
May 23, 2016 | Audit, HIPAA Audits, HIPAA Fine, HSN, MACRA
Back in March, we reported that OCR had announced its Phase 2 Audit Program. OCR stated that they would compile a database of both Covered Entities and Business Associates to form the basis of the pool of organizations potentially targeted for audit. They have...
Mar 28, 2016 | Audit, Business Associate, HIPAA Audits, HIPAA Fine, HIPAA Violations, HSN
Watch HSN CEO discuss the next round of HIPAA Audits The post HSN CEO on NJTV discussing the next phase of the HIPAA audits appeared first on HIPAA Secure Now!.
