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Only community users with selected roles can access PHI Audit. For questions about PHI Audit access, contact your community administrator.

The PHI Audit application enables you to audit:

Access to operations on a selected patient's data
A selected user's access to, and operations on, patient data

The purpose of the audit tool is to review users’ accesses of Protected Health Information to verify accesses are in line with HIPAA requirements.

PHI Audit allows you to:

Audit a specific patient's data to retrieve information about auditable actions that have been performed on the data.
Audit a specific user's actions to determine whose data they have accessed, and which auditable actions they performed on the data.

Auditable Actions

PHI Audit retrieves information associated with actions described in the following table. You can select one or more actions when you create an audit.

Audit Type	Audited Action	Description
Patient	Patient Search Results	Includes the search results from which the patient was selected.
Patient	Patient Consent	Displays the consent selection that was selected for access to patient data.
Patient	Patient Opt In	Indicates if the Opt In setting was changed.
Patient	Patient Opt Out	Indicates if the Opt Out setting was changed.
Patient	Patient PHI Access	Displays the viewed patient data.
User	Patient Consent	Displays the consent selection the user selected to access patient data.
User	Patient Search Criteria	Audits the criteria used to search for a patient.
User	Patient Search Results	Audits the search results from which the user selected a patient.
User	Patient Opt In	Indicates if the user changed the Opt In setting.
User	Patient Opt Out	Indicates if the user changed the Opt Out setting.
User	Patient PHI Access	Indicates which tabs of patient data the user accessed.

Navigating the PHI Audit Dashboard

Important: As you perform tasks with the PHI Audit Dashboard, use the application's buttons to navigate. Do not use your browser's back button. If you use your browser's back button for navigation, you may be returned to your healthcare community home page.

Examples of application buttons:

You can quickly initiate audit tasks from the Audit Dashboard window. To access tasks, scroll up or down the window as required to reach the section that supports the tasks you want to perform.

In sections that display information in columns, you can sort the information by clicking column headings. Multiple clicks on a heading toggle the sort order between ascending and descending sequence.

The Start a new audit section provides access to two wizards used to create patient or user audits. For details, refer to:

The Scheduled audits section allows you to view or cancel audits that have not been submitted for system processing. For details, refer to View or Cancel Scheduled Audits.

The Processed audits section allows you to view and delete processed audits. For details, refer to: