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Your Healthcare Compliance Due Diligence Checklist

Compliancy Group

A healthcare compliance due diligence checklist is one essential tool that can help organizations in their quest for compliance. What is a Healthcare Compliance Due Diligence Checklist? A healthcare compliance due diligence checklist outlines the steps and processes to ensure organizational compliance.

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State of HIPAA – May 2023 Report

HIPAA Journal

It has been 27 years since President Clinton signed the Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act (HIPAA) into law, but compliance is still proving a challenge for many HIPAA-regulated entities. The average HIPAA penalty has fallen from $2.6 reduction in total penalties compared to 2018, falling from $28.7

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Security Breaches in Healthcare in 2023

HIPAA Journal

In the paper, the HHS indicated it will be adopting a carrot-and-stick approach by developing voluntary Healthcare and Public Health (HPH) Sector Cybersecurity Goals (CPGs) that consist of cybersecurity measures that will have the greatest impact on security along with an update to the HIPAA Security Rule to add new cybersecurity requirements.

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The Importance of Third-Party Compliance: Mitigating Risks and Ensuring Accountability

Compliancy Group

By doing so, organizations can minimize potential risks such as: HIPAA Violations Reputational Damage Financial Loss Breaches of Customer Data The Role of Third-Party Compliance Management: Enhancing Organizational Integrity Effective third-party compliance management is essential for mitigating risks associated with external partnerships.

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Mitigating Healthcare Cyber Risk Through Vendor Management

HIT Consultant

Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) Office for Civil Rights (OCR) is exercising its enforcement discretion to not impose penalties for noncompliance with HIPAA and the HITECH Act as it relates to “good faith” implementations of remote technologies used to provide telehealth. While the U.S. – Ongoing risk-based monitoring.

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Seven Elements of a Compliance Program

HIPAA Journal

This is not necessarily a bad thing because – around the same time – the passage of HIPAA introduced fraud controls and transaction standards that made it harder for healthcare providers to defraud or abuse the system. With regard to enforcing standards, it is important that sanctions are applied fairly.

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Healthcare APIs: 3 Ways APIs Differ in Healthcare vs. Enterprise

HIT Consultant

Instead of jumping in and writing scripts using Python, developers must have knowledge of and experience with Fast Healthcare Interoperability Resources (FHIR), a standard for exchanging healthcare information electronically that aims to simplify implementation without sacrificing information integrity.