Administrative Safeguards

First Definition

These are going to be policies and procedures put in place or actions that an organization will take to ensure that the protection of electronic protected health (PHI) information. They are put in place to ensure the following:

• Identify and analyze potential risk to PHI and that there are appropriate security measures to reduce the risk and vulnerabilities,

• That the policies and procedure should allow access to PHI only to appropriate associates who have a need to know based on the roles the play in an organization,

• Designate an individual or security officer whose sole responsibility is to develop, implement, and enforce the said policies and procedures,

• Proper supervision of employees or associates authorized to handle e-PHI and that these individuals are appropriately trained, and established appropriate sanctions are in place to violators of these policies and procedure,

• Finally, each organizations should have policies and procedures in place to perform periodic assessment on how well they it's establish policies and procedures meet the requirement for Administrative Safeguards.

The administrative safeguards implemented, should be consistent with the Privacy Rule Standards related to use and disclosure of PHI.

Second Definition

Administrative safeguards are the security measures established by an organization through their policies and procedures or actions, for the purpose of protecting electronic protected health information.