BAA

What is a Business Associate Agreement and Who Needs One?

If you work in healthcare long enough, you’ll eventually hear someone say, “We’re HIPAA compliant—our vendor said so.” Then you ask a simple follow-up question: “Do you have a signed Business Associate Agreement (BAA) with them?” That one document (or lack of it) is where a lot

BAA

Do I Need a BAA? A Vendor-by-Vendor Decision Guide

A two-question test for deciding whether a vendor needs a Business Associate Agreement, which common vendors fall outside the rule, and what your signed-agreement evidence should look like when OCR asks.