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By Jeffery P. Drummond

The AMA jumps on the encryption bandwagon: When the Security Rule initially came out in the spring of 2003 (and became effective April 2005), the question of encryption was an "addressable" one -- in other words, encryption was not required. Covered entities had to consider whether it was necessary, but if the entity determined it was not, the entity did not have to adopt encryption technologies

Full post as published by HIPAA Blog on April 12, 2010 (boomark / email).