What are HIPAA Administrative Safeguards? The Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act of 1996 (HIPAA, PL104-191) was enacted to protect the privacy and availability of health insurance coverage and medical information. The law’s primary goals include protecting health insurance coverage for workers and their families in the event that the insured employee changes or loses […]
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What is an Inadvertent Disclosure under HIPAA? An inadvertent disclosure is an event where a health professional unintentionally reveals protected health information (PHI) to an unauthorized person by mistake. Generally, if PHI is disclosed to unauthorized personnel, a breach of PHI is presumed to have occurred. Depending on the size of the unauthorized disclosure, HHS […]
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HIPAA Technical Safeguards
What are HIPAA Technical Safeguards? The Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act of 1996 (HIPAA, PL104-191) was enacted to protect the privacy and availability of health insurance coverage and medical information. The law’s primary goals include protecting health insurance coverage for workers and their families in the event that the insured employee changes or loses […]
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Privacy Risk Management
What is Privacy Risk Management? Privacy risk is the potential loss of control over personal information. Personally identifiable information (PII) refers to any information about an individual maintained by an agency, including any information that can be used to distinguish or trace an individual’s identity, such as name, social security number, date and place of […]