In an article published by Pharmaceutical Compliance Monitor on March 23, 2016, Chris Thompson provides guidance on the Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act's (HIPAA) Security Rule that requires organizations to conduct a risk assessment of their security practices in order to maintain a secure environment for protected health information (PHI).

The article details reasons for implementing policies and procedures to prevent, detect, contain and correct security violations.

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