Sentences with phrase «safeguarding your information hipaa»

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The HIPAA Rules generally require that covered entities enter into contracts with their business associates to ensure that the business associates will appropriately safeguard protected health information.

This week it launched the Legal Workspace HIPAA Compliant Edition, designed to allow small and medium law firms to meet necessary HIPAA security regulations governing the safeguarding of protected health information.

In addition to the privacy rule, the HIPAA security rule establishes administrative and technical safeguards specifically covering «electronic protected health information» (ePHI).

Your personal health information belongs to you, and health care industry workers covered under the HIPAA rule must safeguard your information by keeping it private.

Health care providers are permitted to disclose protected health information («PHI») to these business associates («BA») as long as they obtain satisfactory assurances that the BA will use the information only for the purposes for which it was engaged by the health care provider, will safeguard the information from misuse, and will help the health care provider comply with some of the health care provider's duties under HIPAA, through the execution of business associate agreements.

The HIPAA rules allow sharing PHI with HIPAA contractors and subcontractors assuming they have received «satisfactory assurances... that the subcontractor will appropriately safeguard the information.»

We note that the proposed HIPAA Security Standards would require covered entities to safeguard the privacy and integrity of health information.