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Hospital HIPAA Compliance: Ensuring Patient Privacy and Avoiding Penalties

Compliancy Group

Hospitals must adhere to the Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act (HIPAA) regulations to ensure patient confidentiality. Failure to comply with HIPAA guidelines can result in severe penalties for hospitals. Non-compliance can lead to significant financial penalties and reputational damage.

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HIPAA Audit Report: Ensuring Compliance & Protecting Patient Data

Compliancy Group

Healthcare organizations must adhere to strict regulations outlined by HIPAA to ensure patient information’s confidentiality, integrity, and availability. Conducting regular HIPAA compliance audit reports is critical in identifying weaknesses or vulnerabilities in an organization’s policies, procedures, and systems.

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Understanding FWA Compliance in Healthcare

American Medical Compliance

Among the various areas of compliance, Fraud, Waste, and Abuse (FWA) compliance stands out as a critical pillar. Therefore, for healthcare providers to prevent these charges from happening, understanding FWA compliance is essential. In this comprehensive guide, we delve into FWA compliance in healthcare.

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Did AI Cause HIPAA Fines to Double in a Single Year?

HIT Consultant

Aidan Simister, Co-Founder and CEO of Lepide In 2023, HIPAA fines amounted to $4,176,500, which is a rise of over $2,000,000 in 2022. So yes, HIPAA fines have doubled. So, a drastic surge in HIPAA fines raises questions about the underlying causes, and whether this is being seen the world over.

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OCR: HIPAA Security Rule Compliance Can Prevent and Mitigate Most Cyberattacks

HIPAA Journal

A large percentage of those breaches could have been prevented if HIPAA-regulated entities were fully compliant with the HIPAA Security Rule. The HIPAA Security Rule requires regulated entities to implement a security management process to prevent, detect, contain, and fix security violations.

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OCR to Produce Video Presentation on HITECH Act Recognized Security Practices

HIPAA Journal

The HHS’ Office for Civil Rights (OCR) is producing a video presentation to help HIPAA-regulated entities implement “Recognized Security Practices.”. Ahead of the publication of the video, OCR has requested questions from HIPAA-regulated entities to ensure they are addressed in the presentation.

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Earn CEUs with MPA's FREE Compliance & HIPAA Webinars!

Health Care Performance

Sign up for MPA's FREE Compliance & HIPAA webinars: All webinars start at 11:00 a.m. CST and are presented by Margaret Scavotto and Scott Gima. Compliance Training for SNFs. For your employees to pass this test, your compliance program needs a strong training program. HIPAA breaches can occur everywhere.

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