164.312(c)(2) Mechanism to Authenticate ePHI (Addressable)
Technical safeguard · Addressable
The requirement as we hold it
Mechanism to Authenticate ePHI (Addressable). Implement electronic mechanisms to corroborate that ePHI has not been altered or destroyed in an unauthorized manner. NIST recommends hash-based or signed integrity verification.
The examiner asks
- Show me the mechanism that corroborates ePHI has not been altered.
- How is a record proved unchanged since it was written?
Evidence to bring
- the integrity verification mechanism
- a verification result
Source: 164.312(c)(2) at eCFR. Our statement of the clause, not the instrument verbatim.