As posted recently on Healthcareinfosecurity.com, Susan McAndrew of the Department of Health and Human Services' Office for Civil Rights (OCR) indicated that OCR is working with KPMG on the creation of protocols for conducting HIPAA audits. After about 20 test audits are conducted, OCR is planning on as many as 150 on-site audits which will continue through 2012. In the interview McAndrew indicated that OCR is working with a separate contractor to gather information about covered entities. McAndrew further indicated that they want to make sure they have a broad base of entities across a variety of entity types.
McAndrew notes that covered entities should take the opportunity to review their current policies and procedures to make sure they are complete and up to date.
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