Analyzing Whether HIPAA’s ‘Industry Standard’ Means You’re Safe From Cyber Attacks

October 3rd, 2016

The HIPAA Security Rule requires covered entities to implement “appropriate” security measures and to maintain such precautions in a manner that is both “continuous” and “reasonable” in order to protect electronic protected health information (“e-PHI”). The HIPAA Security Rule identifies two different types of implementation specifications in its attempt – regrettably, only partially successful -to guide efforts to meet these laudable, but highly elastic, standards.

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from Eric Armstrong, Operations and Information Security Manager at WhamTech

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