Under HIPAA, a business associate includes the following: health information organizations, e-prescribing gateways, personal health record vendors, and entities providing data transmissions services for PHI and that require routine access to such PHI....
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Under HIPAA, a business associate includes the following: health information organizations, e-prescribing gateways, personal health record vendors, and entities providing data transmissions services for PHI and that require routine access to such PHI. Business associates are required to be compliant with the HIPAA/HITECH Rule, and are faced with many of the same compliance requirements as their covered entities. This means that business associates will be held responsible for their own compliance by establishing appropriate physical, administrative, and technical safeguards to protect PHI.
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