Important HIPAA Information Security Due Dates for Healthcare Organizations

When it comes to HIPAA information security compliance, you cannot just draft your policy handbook, shelve it, and forget it. HIPAA information security rules require you to keep a host of important due dates and meet specific recordkeeping standards.  

‍Maintaining compliance with HIPAA Security rules involves conducting periodic security team meetings, analyzing access logs, and adhering to specific timelines and due dates.

HIPAA rules require that security and risk management documents are available to those who need it and specify how long they should be maintained.  The Office of the National Coordinator for Health Information Technology (ONC) has provided a sample Information Security Policy Template organizations can use to become compliant with the Security rules. In Table 1, we have reviewed the Security Risk Assessment and the sample Information Security Policy Template and have compiled some of the important due dates for HIPAA Information Security rules.  There may be other important due dates, depending on your exact security practices and procedures, so we suggest you take a look at these documents yourselves.

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There is no shortage of due dates or documentation requirements when it comes to maintaining health care compliance. The list we compiled above only includes due dates related to HIPAA Information Security practice. So, how do you keep track of all these due dates? And where do you store all these compliance documents? If your answer is paper files, spreadsheets or Google calendar, you are working too hard. 

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