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HIPAA:

Let Enforcement Action Spur Your Lab’s Compliance

Published on Fri Jul 09, 2021

Track the basics to stay on course. The feds are ramping up HIPAA reviews, and one Georgia lab’s experience should be a warning to you. When an HHS Office for Civil Rights’ (OCR) review “found systemic noncompliance with the HIPAA Security Rule, including failures to conduct an enterprise-wide risk analysis, implement risk management and audit controls, and maintain documentation of [...]
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