Continuing our HIPAA series, we are back with HIPAA compliance: Administrative safeguards. While HIPAA Technical Safeguards deals primarily protecting electronic protected health information, administrative safeguards sets the foundations to implement HIPAA policies.

Administrative safeguards covers half of the HIPAA security requirements and includes but not limited to risk management and assessment, security responsibility, employees training, access control and management, contingency plan to address breaches or emergencies, and business associates management. Let’s delve deeper into these safeguards with an infographic:

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Administrative safeguards compliance require an evaluation of your current security controls and practices, a thorough risk assessment and document processes internally and of business associates which may have access to PHI. Although many items under administrative safeguards still fall under addressable category, but having those items in place in combination with technical and physical safeguards can make it easier to prevent and address any data breaches.

 

January 6, 2016
HIPAA security: Administrative safeguards

HIPAA Administrative Safeguards: Policies & Procedures to Protect ePHI [Infographic]

Continuing our HIPAA series, we are back with HIPAA compliance: Administrative safeguards. While HIPAA Technical Safeguards deals primarily protecting electronic protected health information, administrative safeguards sets the foundations to implement HIPAA policies. Administrative safeguards covers half of the HIPAA security requirements and includes but not limited to risk management and […]
December 24, 2015
A guide to the technical safeguards of HIPAA’s security rule

HIPAA Technical Safeguards: Technologies, and Policies to Protect ePHI [Infographic]

PHI, ePHI, Privacy, Security, HIPAA Security rules, HITECH act – struggling to grasp these terms and how these apply to you? You are not alone… Healthcare Information Portability and Accountability Act(HIPAA) lays out sets of rules and guidelines that every covered entity and their business associate must follow to protect […]