Health Information Compliance Alert
Reader Questions:
Do We Account For Audit Logs?
Published on Sat Mar 10, 2007 
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"No," says John Parmigiani, senior VP for Consulting Services at QuickCompliance in Avon, CT. However, the log should facilitate your HIPAA security rule-mandated incident reporting system, he says. "If you determine nothing's been exposed, you're under no reporting requirements."Remember:
If there has been exposure, the breach must be handled in accordance with your facility's defined policies and procedures for incidents.The bottom line:
"Auditing flows into the incident response," Parmigiani explains. When a potential breach is discovered, the incident response team then investigates it and makes the necessary contacts.Any breaches must be reported, experts agree. The key function of the reporting requirement is to make sure people whose information has been or may have been compromised have the ability to react.
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