The HIPAA Security Officers Are Responsible for

question 17

Multiple Choice

The HIPAA Security Officers are responsible for

• A) seeing that all facility doors are locked at night.
• B) seeing that there is safe storage for paper medical records.
• C) hiring security guards for their facility.
• D) safeguarding all electronic patient health information.

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