For the last three years, the Ponemon Institute has taken the pulse of the healthcare industry and its compliance with HIPAA.
It was a record year in 2012 when it came to OCR's HIPAA enforcement action.
When HIM professionals at Driscoll Children's Hospital in Corpus Christi, Texas, looked into its success rate for physician response to coding queries, it knew it needed to do a better job.
In the coding world, it's a never-ending clash that can cause compliance concerns-facility vs. professional.
How one healthcare organization survived a major data breach and OCR enforcement action