Question

Health care organizations must strictly comply with HIPAA regulations which require these organizations to maintain proper security controls to protect personal information. The IT infrastructure that handles personal information is included in this controlled environment. From the risks and vulnerabilities chart you completed in Lab 1, which of the risks below would most directly violate HIPAA compliance if compromised?
a. VPN tunneling between the remote computer and the router b. Unauthorized access to organization-owned workstations c. Loss of production data server d. All of the above

Answer 1

Answer:

b. Unauthorized access to organization-owned workstations

Explanation:

Base on the scenario been described in the question, the option the risks would most directly violate HIPAA compliance if compromised is Unauthorized access to organization-owned workstations

Ethical health research and privacy protections both provide valuable benefits to society. Health research is vital to improving human health and health care. Protecting patients involved in research from harm and preserving their rights is essential to ethical research. For the reasons, there certain risk they cannot take, but in this case, the risk they are will to take is the been mentioned.