News & Announcements

The home page for Privacy Incident Tracking has been significantly enhanced to make it easier to find cases as well as provide an expanded set of graphs and ways to analyze your case data.

We have added three new, key features and changes to the user...

As of Monday, July 11, sites began receiving audit notices, and given 10 days to respond. These audits will examine each entities’ compliance with the HIPAA Privacy, Breach and Security Rules. OCR officially sent out 167 notices to health care providers...

Preparing for an OCR audit has become a hot topic recently. To assist you in this task, CompliancePro Solutions has completed, and is making available, OCR audit summary tools.

We have taken the 180 Phase 2 Audit Protocol Documents that were recently...

I received through AHIMA sources this week the 2016 Audit Phase 2 protocols and copies of the web forms. OCR is sending these out electronically to covered entities in advance of the next round of audits to collect information about the facilities...

Kelly McLendon, managing director of CompliancePro Solutions, will be delivering a joint presentation at HIMSS16 with Elizabeth Delahoussaye, RHIA, CHPS, Privacy Officer from our customer IOD-HealthPort. Their presentation is titled “Advancing Privacy...

Over the past several months, the HHS Office for Civil Rights has undertaken a full redesign of their website, www.hhs.gov/ocr, a more responsive, user-friendly platform. “Our website is a critical component of our outreach, education and enforcement...

CompliancePro Solutions customers span many types of healthcare organizations including health systems, community and critical access hospitals, business associates, resellers to physician offices and ambulatory facilities, long term care facilities...

There have been a number of noteworthy enhancements added to PrivacyPro since August. Please let us know if you have any questions about any of these new features:

Privacy and Security Incident Tracking

• For Privacy cases, you can now specify which...

The American Health Information Management Association (AHIMA) honored members at its annual AHIMA Triumph Awards ceremony today. The awards recognize the excellence, dedication and service of health information management (HIM) professionals who have...

Kelly McLendon recently attended the National HIPAA Summit in Washington, DC. While OCR has released no new privacy or security rules, the following updates are anticipated for 2015:

New OCR Audit Program to include Business Associates

HIPAA covered...