HIM/HIPAA

The Office of the National Coordinator for Health Information Technology (ONC) and the Office for Civil Rights released version 3.1 of the HHS Security Risk Assessment (SRA) Tool, designed to help healthcare providers conduct security risk assessments.

Kalispell Regional Healthcare (KRH) in Montana recently announced an email data breach that may have exposed the protected heath information of nearly 130,000 of its patients.

Use this sample audit template to help prevent instances of prohibited abbreviations in documentation.

Brush up on the differences between these two diagnoses.

Use this tool to ensure compliant documentation for patients in restraints or seclusion.

Our expert answers HIPAA questions about right to access, file transfer protocol (FTP) servers, and former employees.

HIPAA-compliance experts discuss the most significant changes that have taken place since January 1, 2010.

In an interview with Briefings on HIPAA, Tim Noonan, deputy director for the Division of Health Information Privacy at OCR, discussed cybersecurity and trends in reports of unsecured PHI to OCR. This article includes the highlights.

OCR meant what it said in February of this year about patients’ right of access to their medical records. The HIPAA Privacy and Security Rule enforcer issued its first enforcement action under its “Right of Access Initiative” in September.

Take a deeper dive into code changes and updates in the 2020 IPPS final rule.