Pulse September 2, 2021
A common area of HIPAA that receives a lot of attention by organization is the Security Rule. The focus is driven by the requirement to implement various policies, procedures, and processes to secure the protected health information in each organization’s posssession. Too often the compliance can take the form of just checking boxes ad not thinking about the impact of each element.
The HIPAA Security Rule
As a quick recap (which hopefully is not really necessary), the HIPAA Security Rule can be viewed broken down along a few different lines. First, the various components of the rule are identified as required or addressable. The required components (as should be self-evident) must be followed and implemented as laid out in the...