Question

Security measures are sometimes described as a combination of physical, technical, and administrative (pta) safeguards. which of these would be considered a technical safeguard?

Answer 1

HIPAA stands for the Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act. This act establishes national standards for electronic health care transactions. Technical safeguards include:

Access control

Audit controls

Integrity

Person or entity authentication

Transmission security

Answer 2

Technical safeguard Measures includes device data encryption, anti-malware software, and communications encryption

Technical safeguards refer to the technology, policy and procedures for its use which protect electronic protected health information and prevent unauthorized access to it.

Further Explanation

It is important that a covered entity must use any of the standard security measures that allow it to appropriately and reasonably implement the required standard for protection.

In addition, a covered entity must determine which of the standard security measures and particular technologies are appropriate and reasonable.  

To lessen the risk of security threat and breaches, the HIPAAs rule states 5 technical safeguard in protecting electronic patient health information. They are:

1. Access control: it helps healthcare providers to create measures for how their practice access patient management records and software.
2. Audits control: this involves monitoring activities in the system that use electronically protected health information.
3. Integrity: practices must ensure the use of reasonable measures to authenticate electronic patient information in order to ensure that it is not destroyed or tempered in any unauthorized way.
4. Authentication: HIPAAs recommend that a person who wants to access the data must actually be the person they claim to be.  Although, common practices uses two-step verification to ensure only authorized person or users can gain access.
5. Transmission security: practices must protect unauthorized access to data that are transmitted electronically.

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• HIPAA’s Privacy and Security Rules brainly.com/question/3223483

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