Compliance
Business Associate
A vendor that handles PHI for a Covered Entity.
A Business Associate (BA) is any vendor that creates, receives, maintains, or transmits PHI on behalf of a Covered Entity — billing services, EHR vendors, cloud hosts, transcription services, secure email vendors. BAs need a signed BAA and are directly liable under HIPAA.
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