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.
<h2>Further Explanation</h2>
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:
- Access control: it helps healthcare providers to create measures for how their practice access patient management records and software.
- Audits control: this involves monitoring activities in the system that use electronically protected health information.
- 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.
- 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.
- Transmission security: practices must protect unauthorized access to data that are transmitted electronically.
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- standard
- security measures
- physical
- technical safeguards
- practices
- patient
