Administrative Safeguards

by Hannah Grace Holladay / May 16th, 2023

According to the Office for Civil Rights, the Security Rule defines administrative safeguards as, “administrative actions, and policies and procedures, to manage the selection, development, implementation, and maintenance of security measures to protect electronic protected health information (ePHI) and to manage the conduct of the covered entity’s workforce in the relation to the protection of that information.”

Examples of administrative controls can be things like employee training, security awareness, written policies and procedures, incident response plans, business associate agreements, and background checks.