{"id":82,"date":"2020-02-18T10:37:11","date_gmt":"2020-02-18T15:37:11","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/apexcompliance.net\/blog\/target\/hipaa-employee-password-policies\/"},"modified":"2020-02-19T03:21:34","modified_gmt":"2020-02-19T08:21:34","slug":"hipaa-employee-password-policies","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/apexcompliance.net\/blog\/2020\/02\/18\/hipaa-employee-password-policies\/","title":{"rendered":"HIPAA &#038; Employee Password Policies"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act (HIPAA) describes how organizations must keep protected health information (PHI) secure. So how exactly are employee passwords supposed to be handled in light of HIPAA? It\u2019s important to understand how HIPAA handles the topic of passwords in order for organizations to properly implement the guidelines in their data protection strategies.<\/p>\n<p>HIPAA is designed to establish industry-wide regulations for protecting confidential healthcare information. Any healthcare organization or business associate that handles protected health information (PHI) must be compliant.<\/p>\n<blockquote id=\"mct_ai_excerpt\"><p>The same organizations are responsible for using proper password policies for their employees.<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><strong>Healthcare Providers <\/strong>\u2013 physicians, podiatrists, dentists, surgeons, laboratory technicians, hospitals, optometrists, clinics, nursing homes<\/li>\n<li><strong>Health Payers<\/strong> \u2013 HMOs, company health plans, Medicare, Medicaid, employers and institutions that handle PHI while enrolling employees or members in a health plan<\/li>\n<li><strong>Healthcare Clearinghouses <\/strong>\u2013 billing service providers, health management information systems<\/li>\n<li><strong>Healthcare Business Associates<\/strong> \u2013 data processing organizations, data transmission providers, data storage firms, medical equipment vendors, external auditors<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>[\u2026]<\/p>\n<p>This is an excerpt.<\/p>\n<blockquote id=\"mct_ai_excerpt\">\n<p id=\"mct-ai-attriblink\"><a href=\"https:\/\/securityboulevard.com\/2020\/02\/hipaa-employee-password-policies\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Click here to view full original article at securityboulevard.com<\/a><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p id=\"mct-ai-attriblink\">\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act (HIPAA) describes how organizations must keep protected health information (PHI) secure. So how exactly are employee passwords supposed to be handled in light of HIPAA? It\u2019s important to understand how HIPAA handles the topic of passwords in order for organizations to properly implement the guidelines in their data protection strategies.<\/p>\n<p>HIPAA is designed to establish industry-wide regulations for protecting confidential healthcare information. Any healthcare organization or business associate that handles protected health information (PHI) must be compliant.&hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/apexcompliance.net\/blog\/2020\/02\/18\/hipaa-employee-password-policies\/\" class=\"read-more\">Read More <\/a><\/p>","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":37,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3,15],"tags":[17,21,16],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/apexcompliance.net\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/82"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/apexcompliance.net\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/apexcompliance.net\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/apexcompliance.net\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/apexcompliance.net\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=82"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/apexcompliance.net\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/82\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/apexcompliance.net\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/37"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/apexcompliance.net\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=82"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/apexcompliance.net\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=82"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/apexcompliance.net\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=82"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}