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HIT-001 · Question #433

Your hospital's equipment vendor provides many life-saving devices, from heart-monitors to EKG's, that store and sort PHI data for retrieval by the hospital's EMR system. In your Service Level…

The correct answer is B. Financial penalties for the vendor failing to meet the recovery deadlines. See the full explanation below for the reasoning.

Question

Your hospital's equipment vendor provides many life-saving devices, from heart-monitors to EKG's, that store and sort PHI data for retrieval by the hospital's EMR system. In your Service Level Agreements (SLA), you want to make sure that equipment vendors have agreed to the essentials that HIPAA and NIST recommend are in place for a contingency situation for covered entities. Which of the following would not be a NIST recommendation?

Options

  • AAllowable outage times for the piece of equipment
  • BFinancial penalties for the vendor failing to meet the recovery deadlines
  • CDeadlines for providing restoration of data
  • DA list of recovery strategies to restore IT operations quickly between equipment and the EMR system

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  • C
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