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Check Out Myth-Busting Information On HIPAA And Encryption

Published on Fri Sep 18, 2020

Check your assumptions about HIPAA compliance and encryption. Many providers think electronic protected health information (ePHI) must be encrypted to be HIPAA compliant. Believe it or not, that’s not the case. In “Security Standards: Technical Safeguards,” the De­partment of Health and Human Services outlines four imple­mentation specifications for “the technology and the policy and procedures for its use that protect [...]
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