HIPAA: 14. Protection Against Violations - Safeguards
10 min! Run Time
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What you'll learn
Skills covered in this course
Description
Staying HIPAA compliant is your organizations job, and safeguards are central to it. Alongside a formal risk analysis, the right safeguards greatly limit the risk of a breach.
What this course covers:
- The administrative safeguards HIPAA expects
- Technical safeguards for protecting electronic PHI
- Physical safeguards for facilities and devices
- How safeguards can mitigate fines from the Office for Civil Rights
Built for teams putting HHS safeguard recommendations into daily practice.
System Requirements
See System Requirements in the Coggno Knowledge Base
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Frequently Asked Questions
Administrative, technical and physical. Together they cover how an organisation is run, how its systems are configured, and how its premises and devices are controlled.
The policies, training and oversight that govern how staff handle PHI — the organisational layer that determines whether technical controls are actually used.
The controls protecting electronic PHI directly: access restrictions, authentication, and the mechanisms that limit who can reach what.
Because a great deal of PHI still exists on paper, on screens and on portable devices. Part fourteen covers controlling access to the places where information physically sits.
No. Alongside a formal risk analysis they greatly limit breach risk — but safeguards chosen without an analysis tend to protect the wrong things.
