An Overview of Laws and Standards for Health Information Security and Privacy
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چکیده
In the complex technological world that healthcare organizations and their business associates operate, there exist security threats and attacks which render individually identifiable health information vulnerable. Laws exist to ensure that healthcare providers take practical measures to address the security and privacy needs of health information. There are also standards that assist healthcare entities to meet the security and privacy requirements of health information. This paper provides a chronological overview of U.S. laws and standards related to health information security and privacy, such as HIPAA, SarbanesOxley Act, HITECH, COBIT, ISO/IEC 27002 2005, and CSF.
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