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Audit Services
Ensure Audit Readiness and Regulatory Compliance
Key Advantages
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Prepare for industry audits
by evaluating your
organization’s audit
readiness
Verify compliance with
industry regulations,
including HIPAA/HITECH
and Meaningful Use
Improve your
organization’s overall
compliance program by
identifying critical gaps
Test your staff’s
preparedness with mock
audit services that align
with government audit
protocols
Identify areas of
improvement and gaps in
documentation
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The healthcare industry has recently seen a cultural shift where investigations,
enforcement and random audits conducted by various federal and state agencies have
become commonplace. Frameworks continue to evolve as multiple branches of Health
and Human Services develop and refine their audit approaches. CynergisTek
understands the regulatory and compliance environment and developed a series of audit
solutions to verify and validate that organizations’ privacy and security programs meet
both compliance and business objectives. CynergisTek’s goal is to help organizations
prepare for regulatory audits and enhance their risk management efforts. Discover which
audit solution best suits your organization’s needs.
OCR Compliance Audits
The OCR Desk Audit and OCR Mock Compliance Audit simulate the experience of an
OCR audit. Conducted with the same strict timeline, approach, protocol and
documentation requests as an actual OCR audit, these engagements are designed to test
audit readiness and verify compliance with HIPAA. Upon completion, CynergisTek will
identify compliance gaps as well as present findings and observations in a report that
mirrors OCR’s, and help you prepare for the real thing by critiquing the organization’s
readiness posture for the audit and its response. The end result is more readiness and
better performance in future audits.
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Measure your audit readiness and performance
Prepare staff for the audit experience
Understand the audit process
Meaningful Use Compliance Audits
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Improve EHR reporting logic and audit readiness
Validate an accurate attestation and maximize incentive dollars
Improve the documentation process
Audit Services
CynergisTek offers several Meaningful Use compliance audits that are
beneficial, regardless if you are pre- or post-attestation. Our Meaningful Use
Attestation Audit is designed to validate and verify report logic calculation
metrics and identifies areas to improve reporting prior to attestation. The end
result is designed to lead to an accurate attestation and maximized incentive
funds. Our mock audits, Meaningful Use Mock Audit and Meaningful Use
Desk Audit mirrors CMS standards and timelines to verify meaningful use of
the EHR used. CynergisTek thoroughly reviews and evaluates documentation,
analyzes EHR structured data and verifies accuracy of EHR reports.
General Audits
CynergisTek offers an Information Technology General Controls
(ITGC) Audit that evaluates the physical, logical and programmatic
controls over IT technologies to verify they function as intended,
tests the validity of data and ensures a high level of integrity of your
organization’s programs, data files and computer operations. An
Application Controls Audit will look at an application’s input, logic
and output of controls to verify the integrity of data by focusing on
the completeness and accuracy of transaction processing.
This audit is scalable to any organization’s size and may offer cost
recovery benefits by reviewing patient charge capture.
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Mitigate risks and threats
Prevent loss of data
Improve business continuity plans and procedures
Optimize processes and workflows
Ongoing Internal Audit Services
CynergisTek can customize a series of our various compliance and
general audits to offer an Audit Assistance Program for
organizations that need to outsource or co-source some of their IT
audit functions. Under this partnership, CynergisTek offers an
annual audit planning session, Meaningful Use Audit, OCR Audit,
ITGC Audit and three Application Controls Audits.
Organizations can also customize or add to this set of services to
better fit its individual needs. These bundled audit services will
ensure a well-rounded IT audit program.
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Co-source or outsource internal audit needs to a team of
experts
Improve compliance, privacy and security programs
Develop and maintain a strategic audit plan
Enhance risk management programs
Learn more about our audit services at:
www.cynergistek.com/audit
About CynergisTek
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Audit Services
CynergisTek is a top-ranked information privacy and security consulting firm. The company offers solutions to help organizations
measure privacy and security programs against regulatory requirements and assists in developing risk management best
practices. Since 2003 the company has served as a partner to hundreds in the healthcare industry. CynergisTek is also dedicated
to supporting and educating the industry by contributing to relevant associations such as HIMSS, AHIMA, HFMA, HCCA, AHIA,
AHLA, IAPP and CHIME. CynergisTek was recognized by KLAS®, as one of three firms provider organizations turn to most for
privacy and security assistance in its groundbreaking report released in May 2014, entitled “Security and Privacy Perception 2014:
High Stakes, Big Challenges.”