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Security Assessment Methodology for HIPAA Security Compliance

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• electronic,
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Overview The Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act (HIPAA) is technically known as Public Law 104-191 of 1996. The intent of the legislation was to "simplify" the way the healthcare industry does business through the standardization of electronic exchanges. Additional benefits of the consistent exchange of information would be realized financially via cost savings from the elimination of print-based record transactions. This paper will explain how an organization should go about assessing its current state of security preparedness by using the methodologies from a standard security assessment and overlaying the HIPAA security requirements as they relate to electronic information protection. The paper will also presume that an external security company would be conducting the security assessment.

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