HIPAA Compliant healthcare organizations should pass a special check, called HIPAA Compliance audit. The Department of Health and Human Rights’ Office for Civil Rights (OCR) appointed and led these controls. They intend to check, how those organizations maintain the security of the PHI and ePHI ...

While learning the topic of HIPAA, you must hear the term Protected Health Information (PHI), which refers to protected health information. It is data of demographic character, stored to identify patients of HIPAA Compliant organizations. Details that make information PHI are geographic data, ...

In conformity with The Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act of 1996 (HIPAA), every HIPAA compliant organization should have HIPAA Compliance Officers. They can be not only on-site workers but also outsourced ones. But what are they responsible for and why do you need them? Let's ...

Health care organizations, which have failed to comply with HIPAA, take risks to face a Corrective Action Plan (CAP). It is one of the most aggressive enforcement of the Department of Health and Human Services. If the DHHS` Office for Civil Rights detects serious HIPAA violations, they may impose ...

If you are linked to an organization dealing with PHI (protected health information), you must remember to stay HIPAA compliant on social media. On the one hand, HIPAA was enacted several years before the promotion of social media such as Instagram or Facebook. There are no specific rules for ...