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Administrative safeguards

Administrative safeguards

- During the HIPAA security brief, we touched on the required implementations. Keep in mind, these are non-negotiable must-dos. As a reminder, administrative safeguards focus heavily on policies, procedures, and governance. As a reminder, administrative safeguards focus heavily on policies, procedures, and governance. There are nine standards. Security management process, assigned security responsibility, workforce security, information access management, security awareness training, security incident procedures, contingency plan, evaluation, and business associate contracts and other arrangement. Within the security management process, practitioners must conduct a risk analysis, implement a risk management process, implement a sanctions policy, and conduct an information system activity review. Assigned security responsibility is both the standard and the requirement. Someone must be identified as the…

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