Question

Health care organizations must strictly comply with the health insurance portability and accountability act (hipaa) privacy and security rules that require organizations to have proper security controls for handling personal information referred to as "protected health information," or phi. this includes security controls for the it infrastructure handling phi. which of the listed risks, threats, or vulnerabilities can violate hipaa privacy and security requirements? list one and justify your answer in one or two sentences.

Answer 1

The Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act (HIPAA) is an act under the United States legislation that ensures the privacy of medical information. Proper and aggressive security measures should be imposed as medical information are private and must only be accessed within the healthcare's limits. In the event that when the security system is breached either physically (breaking in the infrastracture) or by hacking; medical records are at risk to be publicize for whatever reason.