The Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act (HIPAA) is a major regulatory aspect of health care information technology (IT). Complete the following for this assignment:
- Identify 1 type of healthcare information system, and explain the steps that would be required to conduct a HIPAA audit of the system within your organization.
- Explain what a gap analysis is and why it would be useful for the organization conducting the audit.
- Your goal is to ensure that the organization remains compliant and to identify any potential compliance gaps.
This assignment is about creating a plan for the audit, not implementing the actual audit. Make sure you include recent changes to HIPAA as a result of the Health Information Technology for Economic and Clinical Health Act (HITECH Act), which was part of the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act of 2009 (ARRA).
Note: Use APA style to cite at least 2 scholarly sources from the last 5 years.
Deliverable Length: 3-4 pages (not including title and reference pages). Please include an abstract.