HIPAA Compliance: Verify Your Vendor’s Compliance Background Up Front
Ask these 5 questions to gauge your vendors’ HIPAA security knowledge.
If you’re in the market for a new cloud or EHR vendor, you may want to investigate their views on the HIPAA Security Rule before you sign any contracts — especially if they guarantee their products are “HIPAA certified” or “HIPAA compliant.”
Why? Simply put, you cannot buy HIPAA compliance. And, when a firm makes unsubstantiated claims that promise such things, you should probably investigate and look into other IT options.
Background: Many third-party vendors say that their products or tools are “HIPAA...
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