Free HIPAA Security Risk Assessment
The HIPAA Journal is offering a free security risk assessment resource aimed at helping covered entities and business associates evaluate threats to protected health information. The tool is designed to walk organizations through identifying risks, estimating likelihood, and addressing gaps in their HIPAA security posture.
Why this matters: A security risk assessment is not optional under HIPAA — it is a legal requirement, and regulators check for it when something goes wrong. Many smaller healthcare providers and business associates skip it or do a superficial version. That is exactly when patients pay the price. If your organization handles medical records and has not done a formal risk assessment recently, this is the gap that turns a manageable incident into a regulatory problem. Free tools lower the barrier. Whether organizations actually use them is another question.
Who should care: Healthcare professionals · Privacy officers · Compliance · General readers · Policy
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