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HIPAA Security Risk Assessment for a Small Physician Practice Generator

Generate a HIPAA security risk assessment for a small physician practice PDF with source-backed hazards, controls, risk ratings and review actions.

How to generate your draft PDF

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Edit or add hazards

Choose a preloaded hazard, add your own, and adjust the initial risk details.

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Fill the assessment

Add controls, optional action details, and residual risk ratings.

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Review and export

Review all hazards, then generate the draft PDF for internal review.

Interactive Assessment

What should be included in scope?

Include the assets, systems, and data that matter most to your organization for a complete and meaningful risk assessment.

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key scope areas

Focus on the areas that have the greatest impact on your risk posture.

  • EHR, ePHI repositories, cloud services, email, patient portals, backups, and the practice data flows between them
  • Workforce users, administrators, role-based access, remote access, shared responsibilities, and recently terminated staff
  • Workstations, laptops, mobile devices, removable media, device encryption, and physical access in the practice
  • Vendors, business associates, integrations, hosted services, and third-party systems that handle or support ePHI
  • Backups, audit logging, incident response, ransomware recovery, patient communications, and remediation tracking

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    ePHI system and asset inventory

    Helps identify where ePHI is stored, processed, accessed, transmitted, or backed up across practice and third-party systems.

  • 2

    Workforce access and user-account report

    Helps identify excessive access, shared accounts, dormant users, and former staff access that no longer matches current roles.

  • 3

    Device and patch/security status records

    Shows whether workstations, laptops, mobile devices, and software are supported, patched, encrypted, and protected.

  • 4

    Backup and restoration test records

    Shows whether critical patient information can actually be recovered after ransomware, deletion, or system failure.

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    Vendor, business-associate, and security documentation

    Helps identify third-party systems handling ePHI and the security responsibilities and dependencies associated with them.

Assessment details

Category

Cyber Security

Frameworks and guidance

NIST SP 800-30; NIST Cybersecurity Framework 2.0; CISA cybersecurity best practices; HHS HIPAA Security Rule risk analysis guidance

Last verified

June 30, 2026

Review status

Source mapped / Not human reviewed

HIPAA Security Risk Assessment for a Small Physician Practice FAQs

A HIPAA Security Rule-oriented risk assessment for a small physician practice examines where ePHI exists, who can access it, and how the practice protects its EHR, endpoints, remote and mobile access, vendors and business associates, backups, audit logs, and patient communications. It helps identify practical risks such as phishing, ransomware, excessive access, and incomplete recovery arrangements; the generated output is a structured draft that requires review for the actual practice.

Generate your HIPAA Security Risk Assessment for a Small Physician Practice PDF

Use preloaded hazards, suggested controls, and source-mapped guidance to create a draft assessment for review.