Strategies for monitoring and auditing HIPAA compliance
Health Care Auditing Strategies, January 1, 2005
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Auditing and monitoring are essential to ensuring HIPAA compliance. An effective auditing and monitoring program will also help your organization minimize the risk of adverse events and noncompliance, while ensuring compliance with the HIPAA privacy, security, transactions, code sets, and identifier rules.
Many tools are available for developing a HIPAA auditing and monitoring program. Use the guidelines in this article for this purpose.
Monitoring
Continuous monitoring, as its name implies, is an ongoing process to identify potential compliance lapses. Successful use of this process depends on the appropriate use of tools-using complementary tools as aids-and special caution when interpreting results. Because the process is general, you can easily misinterpret the results of the data collected. However, it is also a powerful process when more specific focus areas are unknown.
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