Create a list of 3 businesses (other than the example below) that a hospital, ph

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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.

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It can have contract with the blogger or small group that they will write things about the hospital premises. The hospital has to share its information with the blogger so that they can use it in their blogs. One special issue is that we have to ensure that the supplied information is true to the knowledge of the hospital management and also have to ensure no negative information was published in the blog. Hospital has to check the blog regularly to ensure the PHI of the patients has not been published.

Nowadays the cloud storage is must for all the institution, so the hospital has to maintain a contract with the cloud service providers. And the main thing is data security and privacy. If their security is weak then its easy for hackers to take away the personal information of patients and diagnostics methods. To avoid this the hospital has to go for a better agreement while opening the contract.

Then it has to get contract with the accountants to manage the financial control of the hospital management. Here the contractors are the responsible to avoid tax evasion and to protect hospital management from government actions. It has to maintain proper reports and update it to the management in any time in need.

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