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Timestamp: 2019-07-17 12:39:03
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Matched Legal Cases: ['§ 164', '§164', '§164', '§164', '§164', '§164', '§164', '§164', '§164', '§164', '§164']

§ 164.308 Administrative safeguards - Eagle Consulting Partners Inc.
HIPAA-Guides
Subpart C – Security Standards
(216) 503-0333
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(a) A covered entity or business associate must, in accordance with §164.306:
(i) Standard: Security management process. Implement policies and procedures to prevent, detect, contain, and correct security violations.
(A) Risk analysis (Required). Conduct an accurate and thorough assessment of the potential risks and vulnerabilities to the confidentiality, integrity, and availability of electronic protected health information held by the covered entity or business associate.
(C) Sanction policy (Required). Apply appropriate sanctions against workforce members who fail to comply with the security policies and procedures of the covered entity or business associate.
(2) Standard: Assigned security responsibility. Identify the security official who is responsible for the development and implementation of the policies and procedures required by this subpart for the entity or business associate.
(i) Standard: Workforce security. Implement policies and procedures to ensure that all members of its workforce have appropriate access to electronic protected health information, as provided under paragraph (a)(4) of this section, and to prevent those workforce members who do not have access under paragraph (a)(4) of this section from obtaining access to electronic protected health information.
(C) Termination procedures (Addressable). Implement procedures for terminating access to electronic protected health information when the employment of, or other arrangement with,
a workforce member ends or as required by determinations made as specified in paragraph (a)(3)(ii)(B) of this section.
(i) Standard: Information access management. Implement policies and procedures for authorizing access to electronic protected health information that are consistent with the applicable requirements of subpart E of this part.
(A) Isolating health care clearinghouse functions (Required). If a health care clearinghouse is part of a larger organization, the clearinghouse must implement policies and procedures that protect the electronic protected health information of the clearinghouse from unauthorized access by the larger organization.
(B) Access authorization (Addressable). Implement policies and procedures for granting access to electronic protected health information, for example, through access to a workstation, transaction, program, process, or other mechanism.
(C) Access establishment and modification (Addressable). Implement policies and procedures that, based upon the entity’s or business associate’s
access authorization policies, establish, document, review, and modify a user’s right of access to a workstation, transaction, program, or process.
(i) Standard: Security awareness and training. Implement a security awareness and training program for all members of its workforce (including management).
(i) Standard: Security incident procedures. Implement policies and procedures to address security incidents.
(ii) Implementation specification: Response and Reporting (Required). Identify and respond to suspected or known security incidents; mitigate, to the extent practicable, harmful effects of security incidents that are known to the covered entity or business associate; and document security incidents and their outcomes.
(8) Standard: Evaluation. Perform a periodic technical and nontechnical evaluation, based initially upon the standards implemented under this rule and subsequently, in response to environmental or operational changes affecting the security of electronic protected health information, that establishes the extent to which an entity’s or business associate’s
security policies and procedures meet the requirements of this subpart.
(1) Standard: Business associate contracts and other arrangements. A covered entity, in accordance with §164.306, may permit a business associate to create, receive, maintain, or transmit electronic protected health information on the covered entity’s behalf only if the covered entity obtains satisfactory assurances, in accordance with §164.314(a) that the business associate will appropriately safeguard the information. A covered entity is not required to obtain such satisfactory assurances from a business associate that is a subcontractor.
2) This standard does not apply with respect to—
(i) The transmission by a covered entity of electronic protected health information to a health care provider concerning the treatment of an individual.
(ii) The transmission of electronic protected health information by a group health plan or an HMO or health insurance issuer on behalf of a group health plan to a plan sponsor, to the extent that the requirements of §164.314(b) and §164.504(f) apply and are met; or
(iii) The transmission of electronic protected health information from or to other agencies providing the services at §164.502(e)(1)(ii)(C), when the covered entity is a health plan that is a government program providing public benefits, if the requirements of §164.502(e)(1)(ii)(C) are met.
(2) A business associate may permit a business associate that is a subcontractor to create, receive, maintain, or transmit electronic protected health information on its behalf only if the business associate obtains satisfactory assurances, in accordance with §164.314(a), that the subcontractor will appropriately safeguard the information.
(3) A covered entity that violates the satisfactory assurances it provided as a business associate of another covered entity will be in noncompliance with the standards, implementation specifications, and requirements of this paragraph and §164.314(a).
Implementation specifications: Written contract or other arrangement (Required). Document the satisfactory assurances required by paragraph (b)(1) or b(2)
of this section through a written contract or other arrangement with the business associate that meets the applicable requirements of §164.314(a).
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