The new federal HIPAA privacy and security rule compliance audits of healthcare organizations and their business associates likely will start later this year once a report on a model for the program is completed, a key federal privacy official says.

In the next few weeks, Booz Allen Hamilton will provide a status report on its compliance audit study for the Office for Civil Rights in the Department of Health and Human Services, the governmental unit that enforces the privacy and security rules, says Susan McAndrew, OCR’s deputy director for privacy.

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