- Designate the Privacy Officer for your practice
- Designate the Security Officer for your practice
- Complete the initial questionnaire on your current office status
- Have your first Risk Assessment performed
- Review the Risk Assessment and its findings
- Remediate all of the problems found in the Risk Assessment
- Create hiring process for new employees – Onboarding
- Create termination process for employees
- Review the status of Business Associate Agreements for your practice
- Send Business Associate Agreements to any vendors who are missing
- Follow up on all outstanding Business Associate Agreements
- Ensure all employees have completed their online training
- Print all completed training certificates and put into HIPAA binder
- Review your backup and disaster recovery process
- Review any devices that require encryption – mobile devices, backup drives, etc.
- Review your breach response policy
- Follow up with staff training concerning phishing attacks
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