HIPAA Information Systems Activity Review Policy Template

The HIPAA Information Systems Activity Review Policy Template is an essential tool for businesses that handle ePHI. Compliance with regulatory requirements, such as the Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act (HIPAA), is critical to help protect companies and keep all ePHI secure. The template provides comprehensive instructions to implement procedures for regularly reviewing information system activity. This includes auditing logs, access reports, security incident reports, and other relevant evidence of system operations.

This template facilitates HIPAA compliance by providing tailored guidance on how to identify and respond to unacceptable usage of ePHI. The policy outlines acceptable and not acceptable behaviors, methods for logging user activity, rules for network access control, and systems for responding to security incidents in a timely manner. This allows businesses to assess their risk management practices and take the steps necessary towards achieving sustainability compliance with privacy regulations including HIPAA.

SAMPLE TEXT: ENTITY NAME has adopted this Information Systems Activity Review Policy in order to recognize the requirement to comply with the Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act (“HIPAA”), as amended by the Health Information Technology for Economic and Clinical Health (“HITECH”) Act of 2009 (Title XIII of division A and Title IV of division B of the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act “ARRA”) and the HIPAA Omnibus Final Rule (Effective Date: March 26, 2013). We acknowledge that full compliance with the HIPAA Final Rule is required by or before September 23, 2013.

ENTITY NAME hereby acknowledges our duty and responsibility to protect the privacy and security of Individually Identifiable Health Information (“IIHI”) generally, and Protected Health Information (“PHI”) as defined in the HIPAA Regulations, under the regulations implementing HIPAA, other federal and state laws protecting the confidentiality of personal information, and under principles of general and professional ethics. We also acknowledge our duty and responsibility to support and facilitate the timely and unimpeded flow of health information for lawful and appropriate purposes.

Each of our HIPAA templates are in Microsoft Word (.docx) format for easy editing. Each template is guaranteed to be fully HIPAA & HITECH compliant when properly implemented.