The US Department of Health and Human Services last year released the HIPAA Omnibus Regulations, which among other things codified the relationship between healthcare providers and their partners.
The new regulations could be summed up in one sentence: A healthcare provider’s partners must function in the same manner as the provider, and to make sure, the provider is ultimately responsible for the actions of their respective partners.
To be compliant, providers and their partners must work more closely than ever before. And the two keys to that relationship and to maintain compliancy require following two major precepts: transparency/visibility and information security.
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