“With big data, comes big responsibility,” says Office for Civil Rights (OCR) Director Roger Severino. This is just a fragment of the insight he gave into upcoming HIPAA enforcement trends in his plenary talks at Health Datapalooza 2017. Severino, the newly appointed Director of the Department of Health and Human Services’ (HHS) OCR, spoke about… Read More »
Starting in November, the Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) Office for Civil Rights (OCR) is slated to begin HIPAA compliance desk audits for business associates. This is just the beginning of OCR’s ongoing push for a permanent HIPAA audit program, which will kick into higher gear come 2017. OCR first began its Phase… Read More »
On February 16, 2016, the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) Office for Civil Rights (OCR) announced it had reached a settlement with Complete P.T., Pool & Land Physical Therapy, Inc. (CPT) after the organization exposed the protected health information (PHI) of a number of its patients. CPT, a California-based physical therapy practice,… Read More »