The electronic medical records at a hospital are password protected to guard patient confidentiality. which hipaa rule does this comply with?
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The security rule of the HIPAA complies with providing password protection to guard patient confidentiality.

Explanation:

The HIPAA security rule is implemented through password protection of the electronically stored health information. This is to make sure that the health information is disclosed only through authorized access by authorized persons to guard patient’s confidentiality.  

Password protection is a must to avoid any unauthorized access to the electronic Protected Health Information (ePHI) which can be stored in electronic media, hard drives, magnetic tapes, CD drives, digital memory or any other electronic storage systems; transmission media like internet, cloud platforms, intranet, dial-up and other forms of network connections.

The security rule implements administrative, physical, and technical safeguards to the ePHI through password protection.  

Security safeguards:

Administrative: Protects administrative policies, procedures and actions which manages, implements, and maintains the ePHI .

Physical: Protects physical policies, procedures and actions which physically protects all the physical equipment and other infrastructures related to the ePHI .

Technical: Protects technological policies, procedures and actions to protect the ePHI .

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