HIPAA: 13. Protection Against Violations - Risk Analysis
7 min! Run Time
Employees
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What you'll learn
Skills covered in this course
Description
HIPAA is a cumbersome maze of rules, and staying compliant is your organizations job. A formal risk analysis is one of the most important steps toward protecting PHI and limiting breach exposure.
What this course covers:
- Why a formal risk analysis matters under HIPAA
- HHS recommendations for conducting one
- How risk analysis reveals gaps in your safeguards
- How it can limit fines from the Office for Civil Rights if a breach occurs
Aimed at compliance leads and managers responsible for HIPAA safeguards.
System Requirements
See System Requirements in the Coggno Knowledge Base
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Frequently Asked Questions
A structured assessment of where protected health information is exposed in your organisation. It is one of the most important steps toward limiting breach risk.
It is central to HIPAA compliance, and HHS provides recommendations on conducting one. Organisations that skip it are usually the ones surprised by where a breach originates.
Part thirteen covers the recommended approach — what to examine, how to assess exposure, and what to do with the findings.
The organisation. The course is direct that staying compliant is an organisational obligation, not something individual staff can be left to manage.
Risk analysis identifies exposure; safeguards address it. Part fourteen covers the administrative, technical and physical controls that follow from the analysis.
