A compliance officer is responsible for providing leadership for a healthcare organization's compliance program, but this is not a job a compliance officer must do alone.
Healthcare organizations face increasingly complex privacy and security issues as they cope with new technology, but many organizations are still struggling with the basics of establishing a compliance program. A natural place to begin is a code of conduct, and policies and procedures.
Chris Apgar, CISSP, president of Apgar & Associates in Portland, Ore., answers questions about digital signatures and the HIPAA minimum necessary standard.