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This book will help the reader implement security within health care organizations (or other organizations for that matter). In particular, the details of the HIPAA Final Security Rule are explained and illustrated. Learning objectives include: * Apply every requirement of the HIPAA Security Rule to a health care entity. * Describe a model of security in terms of administration, technical, and physical safeguards. * Construct a life cycle of compliance in terms of awareness, gap analysis, risk analysis, implementation, training, and audit. * Design access control and encryption systems. * Assess costs of security compliance. The book follows intimately the February 2003 Security Rule and is the most comprehensive guide to the problems and solutions that Rule anticipates.