Evaluating Systems for Health Privacy Regulations Compliance You are the privacy and security officer for your facility; your background is HIM and you are a Registered Health Information Administrator (RHIA) with the Certified in Healthcare Privacy and Security (CHPS) credential. You are part of a team that is reviewing the request for proposals (RFPs) received from various EHR vendors. Your emphasis in the review will be the privacy and security issues. You know that there are many privacy requirements, some of which are policy related; however, many impact the functionality of information systems. You are in the process of reviewing the RFPs that were returned to you by various EHR vendors. One of the RFPs states that they are HIPAA compliant, so you decide to compare their product to the HIPAA security regulations to determine if this is true.
1. Identify the privacy functions you should look for in the EHR.
2. Identify the security functions you should look for in the EHR.
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