Compliance Conversations By Healthicity

We kicked off this episode of Compliance Conversations with a guest host, our very own compliance expert, Marcie Swenson, and her special guest, Emily Haley, who has worked as a Chief Privacy Officer and Compliance Director at Intermountain healthcare and is currently working in Care Transformation. In the first half of the show, Haley gave us a full fledged rundown on gap analysis, risk analysis and risk management plans. In the second half of the show, we dove unapologetically into the OCR’s phase 2 desk audits and what we can all learn from them. “Everybody is familiar with OCR’s phase 2 desk audits, where they audited 63 covered entities, and I think 40 something business associates. They used a scale 1 through 5, 1 being the very best risk analysis or risk management plan, and 5 being the very worst...more than half both business associates and the covered entities had scored a 4 and a 5. That’s shocking. That means most of us are not doing the right things.” Tune into our latest episode of Compliance Co