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January 15, 2025 at 1:28 PM
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HHS' Office of Civil Rights hasn't audited HIPAA compliance since 2017.

These audits, required by the HITECH Act, are supposed to assess things like cybersecurity readiness, but even when it conducted audits, OCR only looked at 8 of 180 #HIPAA rules 😳

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Government watchdog calls out HHS for not auditing health care's privacy compliance since 2017
The Office for Civil Rights is not checking if health care providers who handle Americans’ sensitive data comply with health privacy laws.
www.statnews.com
November 26, 2024 at 1:46 PM