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Healthcare (HIPAA)

Healthcare (HIPAA)

- [Instructor] Healthcare organizations are another great marketplace for cybersecurity professionals. The first reason why is because healthcare organizations are required by law to be secure. All US healthcare organizations must comply with the Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act, or HIPAA, which requires them to implement appropriate administrative, physical, and technical safeguards to ensure the security of patients' electronic protected health information, or ePHI. In 2003, the HIPAA Security Rule was published, which established national standards to protect ePHI that is created, received, used, or maintained by a healthcare organization. The Security Rule creates many requirements, including designating a security official responsible for developing and implementing security policies and procedures; training all workforce members on security policies and procedures; implementing security controls…

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