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HIPAA Compliance in the Age of Big Data: Ensuring Patient Privacy in Healthcare Data Analytics

HIT Consultant

Mateusz Krempa, COO, Piwik PRO As healthcare providers increasingly embrace big data, they find themselves at a crossroads: the challenge of using relevant data to improve patient care while ensuring the highest levels of privacy and compliance with regulations like the Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act (HIPAA).

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ACA Reporting Deadline Extended and the End of “Good Faith” Compliance

Compliance Now

However, since 2015, the IRS has consistently extended this deadline, typically by 30 days. Since 2015, the IRS has also provided good faith transition relief to ACA reporting. In other words, under the formal rules, forms for the 2021 calendar year need to be distributed by January 31 st , 2022.

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Post-Acute Compliance Program Update: OIG Recommendations on Medical Director Agreements and Roles

Hall Render

Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) issued new Industry Segment-Specific Compliance Program Guidance For Nursing Facilities (Nursing Facility ICPG) for nursing home members of the health care compliance community. Medical Directors in Nursing Homes 42 CFR 483.70(g) See 42 C.F.R. See 42 C.F.R.

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OCR Settles 5th Case Under Risk Analysis Initiative

Compliancy Group

The OCR launched its Risk Analysis Initiative to focus investigations on compliance with the provision, as it is the foundation for effectively protecting electronic protected health information (ePHI) , and to highlight the criticality of risk analysis. Find out how Compliancy Group can help you meet your risk analysis needs!

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OCR: HIPAA-Regulated Entities Need Continue to Improve HIPAA Security Rule Compliance

HIPAA Journal

The Department of Health and Human Services’ Office for Civil Rights (OCR) has publicly released two reports that were submitted to Congress that provide insights into data breaches, HIPAA enforcement activity, and the state of HIPAA Privacy and Security Rule compliance for calendar year 2021.

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How Intermountain Healthcare gets top marks for virtual care

Healthcare It News

Telehealth has been operationally implemented within Intermountain Healthcare since 2015, with pilots running for several years prior.

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Navigating New Healthcare Cybersecurity Regulations: What You Need to Know

Healthcare IT Today

For instance, Sarbanes-Oxley (SOX) followed the Enron fraud, updates to FISMA came after the 2015 Office of Personnel Management (OPM) breach, and the Securities and Exchange Commissions cybersecurity disclosure provisions were implemented after breaches at Equifax and SolarWinds. Whats Changing in Healthcare Cybersecurity?