Don’t Overlook A HIPAA Risk Assessment Or You Could End Up In Legal Trouble

Healthcare organizations need to take a look at their federal requirements as well as their local or state laws while conducting a HIPAA risk assessment.

“There are handfuls of different reasons to have security folks look at your systems and audit you and give you various reports, and that’s fine,” Rostolsky said. “Ultimately, you need to have something that’s specifically looking at the security requirements and speaks and uses HIPAA language in the assessment.”

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