HIPAA privacy officers don’t have eyes in the back of their heads. Nor can they be everywhere at once. But they can increase their ability to monitor compliance by sharing the responsibility with other staff members.
It appears OCR and state attorneys general will be taking a more serious approach to enforcing HIPAA and HITECH. It’s essential that covered entities (CE) and business associates (BA) who haven’t begun a security compliance review do so. This is a requirement of the HIPAA Security Rule evaluation standard.
“Patient revenue trumps privacy and risk management,” according to the sponsor of a new study that gives healthcare organizations failing grades for not adequately protecting patients’ PHI.
