The Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act (HIPAA) is broad federal legislation requiring, among other things, that healthcare providers and payers implement electronic safeguards to protect patient data confidentiality, integrity, and availability. Through HIPAA's Security Rule healthcare organizations are instructed to identify and mitigate security threats and vulnerabilities. One type of threat recognized by the Security Rule is the threat of malicious software or malware. And one form of malware is spyware. The Security Rule requires each organization to assess its risks and to take appropriate action. As risks such as spyware change and grow, healthcare organizations must constantly manage those risks to protect individually-identifiable health data from unauthorized disclosure and to ensure the data's availability when needed.
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