BLOG: Health care regulatory 101: HIPAA security risk assessments (Healio)

Key takeaways:

• Ransomware, data exfiltration and data deletion are threats to medical practices.
• Security risk assessments are required under the HIPAA Security Rule.

Most medical practices subject to data security regulations of the HIPAA Security Rule have adopted administrative, physical and technical safeguards for electronic protected health information in accordance with the HIPAA Security Rule.