3 Categories of Every Security Risk Analyses

In an American Association of Orthopaedic Executives brief, Karen Pass, a senior compliance specialist with MedSafe: The Total Compliance Solution, discusses completing security risk analyses to ensure HIPAA compliance.

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According to Ms. Pass, the security risk analysis should include the implementation of three categories of electronic protected health information safeguards. The three categories are:

 

1. Administrative safeguards. These must state how the covered entity will conduct oversight and management of staff members who have access to and handle electronic protected health information.
2. Physical safeguards: These are the mechanisms required to protect electronic systems, equipment and the data they hold from environmental hazards and unauthorized intrusion.
3. Technical safeguards: These are the automated processes used to protect and control access to data.

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