HIPAA Risk Analysis Is Not a Risk Assessment. The Distinction Matters.
HHS-OCR settlements repeatedly cite the failure to conduct a §164.308(a)(1)(ii)(A) risk analysis. Practices that confuse it with a generic assessment routinely lose that argument.
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