tci Part B Insider - 2016 Issue 16

Patient Privacy: HIPAA Audits to Scrutinize the Fundamentals of Your Privacy Plans

Ensure that your program discusses how to cover these details to prep for an audit. Do you know how to de-identify a patient’s protected health information (PHI)? Will you be prepared to restore PHI after a data loss? These questions—among many others—will be on auditors’ minds as they audit practices’ HIPAA policies this year. Background: As most practices are aware, the Office of Civil Rights (OCR) has launched phase two of the HIPAA audits, which means that auditors will be reviewing the privacy practices of covered entities (CEs) and business associates (BAs) this year (see the...

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