As the Office for Civil Rights (OCR) readies itself for the go-forward HIPAA audit program, recent updates from OCR Director, Jocelyn Samuels, and Iliana Peters, OCR Senior Advisor for Compliance and Enforcement, provide new information about the OCR HIPAA Audit Program.

In this session, we will cover these important Audit Program updates and offer guidance as to how to integrate the updates into your HIPAA program efforts. How do you prepare for an audit? What might the new OCR audit protocol address? How do you integrate critical audit readiness activities with the ever-emerging new requirements of your data protection programs generally?

The time has come to kick your HIPAA compliance programs into a higher gear and initiate formal audit readiness activities. We anticipate that the OCR will make up for lost time and move quickly to get the audits underway.
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 Learning Objectives:

• Discuss learnings from the HIPAA Compliance Audit Program update
• Explain the absolute “latest and greatest” on the OCR HIPAA Audit Program and how your organization can prepare and maintain a posture of audit readiness
• Identify a step-by-step approach into the OCR HIPAA Audit Program and how to mitigate compliance gaps
• Describe risk measurement and evolutionary process improvement to support continuous audit readiness
• Discuss  the content and structure of the OCR HIPAA Audit Entity Questionnaire

Stephanie Crabb, Principal, Immersive