The Final Rule expands the reach of the HIPAA rules by stating that any business associate of a HIPAA covered entity who protected health information on behalf of that covered entity, is subject to many of the same HIPAA rules as the covered entity.

The correct answer is maintain and transmit

HIPAA - Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act is a set of compliances that healthcare organizations have now followed to protect their internal digital information.

HIPAA started to take on great importance from the moment when serious crimes of system hijacking caused institutions to lose millions to "cybercriminals" who managed to somehow pierce the software that until then was unprotected.

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the declaration states, “we hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal, that they are endowed by their creator with certain unalienable rights, that among these are life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness….”