Free HIPAA Policies & Governance Templates
The paperwork layer HIPAA actually audits: policy management, documentation and retention, training, and sanctions. These templates are the governance spine.
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- HIPAA Glossary & Definitionsreference
Plain-language definitions of the terms and acronyms used across HowToHIPAA's policies, procedures, and the compliance posture assessment.
This Policy is the meta-policy that governs every other policy and procedure in [Organization]'s HIPAA compliance program.
To provide repeatable, auditable steps for taking any policy or procedure through its full lifecycle (authoring, review, approval, publication, distribution, acknowledgement, periodic review, and retirement) and for m…
- Sanction Recordreference
The confidential record that your sanction policy has teeth (each violation, the outcome, and the action applied), the proof an auditor looks for that consequences are real.
- Training Roster & Completion Logreference
The per-person roster that shows your whole workforce completed security-awareness and HIPAA training: the evidence behind the training requirement, kept current as people join.
- Workforce Security Proceduresprocedures
To provide repeatable, auditable steps for pre-hire screening, security and privacy training and its tracking, periodic security reminders, sanctioning of violations, and handling concerns without retaliation, impleme…
This Policy establishes how [Organization] manages the people dimension of protecting electronic protected health information (ePHI) and protected health information (PHI): screening workforce members before they are …
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