HIPAA Update: Security Rule

In 2003, standards for the security of electronic protected health information were adopted. The deadline for HIPAA Security Standards compliance is April 20, 2005. Like the HIPAA Privacy Rule, the security standards outline the minimum safeguards “to ensure the integrity and confidentiality of protected health information and to protect against any reasonably anticipated threats or hazards to the security or integrity of the information and unauthorized use or disclosure of the information.”1:

1”Health Insurance Reform: Security Standards,” Federal Register, Volume 68, Number 34, February 20, 2003, pp. 8334.

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