Health Information Management

OCR finalizes guidance on risk analysis

HIPAA Weekly Advisor, July 19, 2010

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The Office for Civil Rights (OCR) on July 14 finalized its first in a series of HITECH-required guidance documents to educate covered entities and business associates (BA) on the best methods to secure electronic protected health information (ePHI).

The first guidance document focuses on risk analysis, a HIPAA Security Rule-required measure for covered entities and now BAs.

OCR issued a draft guidance document in May. The final guidance document is available on the OCR privacy website.



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