Paula Stannard, one of the practice leaders of the firm’s HIPAA Privacy & Security Team authored, “Business Associates’ HIPAA Compliance: Should Covered Entities Be Concerned?” in Bloomberg BNA’s Health IT Law & Industry Report.
The article discusses why HIPAA covered entities (or business associates) should be concerned about the ability of their business associates (or subcontractor business associates) to comply with the applicable HIPAA requirements, outlines a series of questions to help covered entities determine for which (if any) business associates they may want to take a more proactive approach to HIPAA compliance, and identifies several potential cost-effective mechanisms by which they can engage their business associates on HIPAA compliance.