Easy Guide to HIPAA Risk Assessments

Risk assessments are required under the Health Insurance and Accountability Act of 1996, better known as HIPAA.

HIPAA is the federal statute that requires healthcare providers to safeguard patient identities, medical records and protected health information ("PHI"). It further requires organizations that handle PHI to regularly review the administrative, physical and technical safeguards they have in place.

Basically, HIPAA took established confidentiality healthcare practices of physicians...