HHS HIPAA Security Risk Assessment Tool Version 3.1 Now Available
The HHS released an updated HIPAA Security Risk Assessment Tool offering a couple of new features that users request to optimize usability. The HHS Office of the National Coordinator for Health Information Technology (ONC) together with the HHS’ Office for Civil Rights (OCR) designed the HIPAA Security Risk Assessment Tool. The Security Risk Assessment Tool is intended to help small to medium-sized healthcare organizations when performing thorough, company-wide risk analysis to identify the risks to protected health information (PHI) integrity, availability, and confidentiality. Healthcare organizations can use the tool to identify and assess risks and vulnerabilities. After which, they could…