{"id":2172,"date":"2011-09-12T05:23:39","date_gmt":"2011-09-12T05:23:39","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.empowerbpo.com\/blog\/?p=2172"},"modified":"2026-05-12T16:21:31","modified_gmt":"2026-05-12T10:51:31","slug":"regulatory-healthcare-entities-look-for-hipaa-compliance-improvements","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.empowerelearning.com\/blog\/regulatory-healthcare-entities-look-for-hipaa-compliance-improvements\/","title":{"rendered":"Regulatory Healthcare Entities Look for HIPAA Compliance Improvements"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone wp-image-4457 size-medium\" src=\"https:\/\/www.empowerelearning.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/09\/ChatGPT-Image-May-12-2026-03_02_51-PM-300x200.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"200\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.empowerelearning.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/09\/ChatGPT-Image-May-12-2026-03_02_51-PM-300x200.png 300w, https:\/\/www.empowerelearning.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/09\/ChatGPT-Image-May-12-2026-03_02_51-PM-1024x683.png 1024w, https:\/\/www.empowerelearning.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/09\/ChatGPT-Image-May-12-2026-03_02_51-PM-768x512.png 768w, https:\/\/www.empowerelearning.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/09\/ChatGPT-Image-May-12-2026-03_02_51-PM-370x247.png 370w, https:\/\/www.empowerelearning.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/09\/ChatGPT-Image-May-12-2026-03_02_51-PM-270x180.png 270w, https:\/\/www.empowerelearning.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/09\/ChatGPT-Image-May-12-2026-03_02_51-PM-740x493.png 740w, https:\/\/www.empowerelearning.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/09\/ChatGPT-Image-May-12-2026-03_02_51-PM.png 1536w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/>As many healthcare providers begin using new technology to streamline practices, lower expenditure and improve efficiency, regulatory compliance procedures become more complex. In the healthcare industry,\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.empowerbpo.com\/category\/hipaa\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\"><b>HIPAA compliance<\/b><\/a> is among the most important standards to meet, and regulatory entities have recently increased audits and general contingency checks.<\/p>\n<p>Recovery audit contractors who inspect Medicare claims have been increasingly employed by the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services to broaden its audit capabilities and inspection policies, the source adds. This strengthening of auditory practices necessitates consistent and thorough checks of compliance practices and security policies.<\/p>\n<p>Since the advent of HIPAA compliance(<a href=\"https:\/\/www.empowerbpo.com\/industries\/healthcare\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\"><b>health care compliance<\/b><\/a>) and its later counterpart, the HITECH Act, new technology such as cloud computing has assisted heathcare providers with tools to comply and receive incentives for implementation and proper use of electronic health records.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>As many healthcare providers begin using new technology to streamline practices, lower expenditure and improve efficiency, regulatory compliance procedures become more complex. In the healthcare industry,\u00a0HIPAA compliance is among the most important standards to meet, and regulatory entities have recently increased audits and general contingency checks. Recovery audit contractors who inspect Medicare claims have been [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[91,40,27],"class_list":["post-2172","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-hipaa","tag-health-care-compliance","tag-healthcare-compliance","tag-hipaa-compliance"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.empowerelearning.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2172","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.empowerelearning.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.empowerelearning.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.empowerelearning.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.empowerelearning.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2172"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/www.empowerelearning.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2172\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4463,"href":"https:\/\/www.empowerelearning.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2172\/revisions\/4463"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.empowerelearning.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2172"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.empowerelearning.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2172"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.empowerelearning.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2172"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}