Question

Create a list of 3 businesses (other than the example below) that a hospital, physician's office, nursing home, or other healthcare organization would contract with that would be considered business associates under HIPAA. For each business associate, please indicate at least one issue that would need special attention and how would the healthcare organization would ensure that PHI was being safeguarded?

Example:
A hospital may choose to contract with a technology recycling company to take care of the disposal of all of its tech items such as computers, printers, and monitors. One special issue that should be noted in the contract is that for any items that contain a hard drive such as desktops, laptops, and some printers, the hard drive must be removed from the device and destroyed using a pneumatic hard drive crusher. In order to ensure that this is done, the hospital could specify that the destruction of the hard drives be done onsite.

Answer 1

HIPAA rule define a covered entity's work forces as employees ,volunteers,trainees and others acting under the covered entity is direct control regardless of whether they are paid

All parties to any contracts or other agreement involving PHI in connectionwith performence functions by anyone

The coverd entities and business associated should review their business associated agreements

In health care associated business have major problem of excreata and bio hazards disposal ,may ensure is proper done or not