Completing Your Annual HIPAA Risk Assessment Before the Deadline
You must complete a HIPAA risk assessment each year, and now is the time to do so. Conducting an annual HIPAA risk assessment is an important part [...]
Everything You Need to Know About HIPAA Security Risk Assessments
It’s that time of year when you should be preparing for your annual HIPAA security risk assessment. As the year comes to a close, the last thing [...]
Why You Should Complete an SRA Now Even If You Qualify for a MIPS Exception
CMS recently announced that under certain circumstances, healthcare providers are exempt from the requirement to complete a security risk analysis (SRA), while remaining eligible to benefit from the MIPS [...]
New OCR Guidance on Completing a Risk Assessment
Recently, to provide HIPAA covered entities and business associates with assistance in completing their risk assessments, the Office for Civil Rights (OCR) released guidance. The OCR guidance [...]
HIPAA and Risk Assessment: Is a HIPAA Risk Assessment Mandatory?
Recently, many organizations have begun to wonder if a risk assessment is mandatory. This in part is due to misinformation on some websites that claim that a HIPAA mandatory [...]
HIPAA Security Rule: Risk Analysis Review and Updating
The HIPAA Security Rule requires that covered entities (health plans, healthcare clearinghouses, and healthcare providers who electronically transmit any health information in connection with a HIPAA [...]
Updated HHS SRA Tool Issued
In 2011, the Department of Health and Human Services (HHS), the federal agency for enforcing HIPAA, issued a Security Risk Assessment (SRA) tool through its Office for Civil Rights [...]
MACRA MIPS 2019 Security Risk Analysis Requirements
With the MACRA MIPS 2019 deadline approaching, healthcare organizations must be aware of what is required of them to receive their reimbursements. Healthcare organizations seeking MACRA [...]
