HIPAA (Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act) Contingency Plan Requirement:
164.308(a)(7) - Establish (and implement as needed) policies and procedures for responding to an emergency or other occurrence (for example, fire, vandalism, system failure, and natural disaster) that damages systems that contain electronic protected health information.”
HIPAA (Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act) Contingency Plan Requirement Explanation:
The purpose of contingency planning is to establish strategies for recovering access to EPHI should the organization experience an emergency or other occurrence, such as a power outage and/or disruption of critical business operations. The goal is to ensure that organizations have their EPHI available when it is needed.
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