HITECH “Check-up”: Where are you on the Road to Compliance?
By Paul Frisch
Senior Compliance Consultant
Apgar and Associates, LLC
Readers of the Washington Healthcare News are undoubtedly familiar with changes to HIPAA included in the HITECH Act, creating new privacy and security requirements and enhancing current enforcement tools. This article is intended to help organizations take a step back to reasonably ensure they are compliant with HIPAA/HITECH and if not, what key risk areas to address first. As often is the case, many who are intimately involved with compliance sometimes miss critical compliance issues within our own organizations.
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