HIPAA (Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act) Physical Safeguards

• Facility Access Controls

  164.310(a)(1) - Implement policies and procedures to limit physical access to its electronic information systems and the facility or facilities in which they are housed, while ensuring that properly authorized access is allowed.

• Workstation Use

  164.310(b) - Implement policies and procedures that specify the proper functions to be performed, the manner in which those functions are to be performed, and the physical attributes of the surroundings of a specific workstation or class of workstation that can access electronic protected health information.

• Workstation Security

  164.310(c) - Implement physical safeguards for all workstations that access electronic protected health information, to restrict access to authorized users.

• Device and Media Controls

  164.310(d)(1) - Implement policies and procedures that govern the receipt and removal of hardware and electronic media that contain electronic protected health information, into and out of a facility, and the movement of these items within the facility

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