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Get ePHI Hip to HIPAA

Published on Wed Jan 06, 2021

Question: Does electronic protected health information (ePHI) have to be encrypted to be HIPAA compliant? Oregon Subscriber Answer: Believe it or not, no — though it is certainly in the interests of any covered entity (CE) to take this step, and every possible precaution to safeguard ePHI. In “Security Standards: Technical Safeguards,” the Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) [...]
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