September 23, 2025
At the foundation of every HIPAA-compliant practice is a Security Risk Analysis (SRA).
The SRA is a thorough assessment of all administrative, physical, and technical safeguards your practice has in place to secure Protected Health Information (PHI). The comprehensive SRA needs to include everything your practice does, from using a sign-in sheet to alarms in the practice to how your computer systems are handled. This documentation must be updated annually and completed for every location of a practice. It is also required for MIPS.
This analysis allows your practice to identify vulnerabilities before an issue occurs. If your SRA shows a server running an outdated version, fix it now; don’t wait for it to become a breach.
A missing SRA is one of the most common HIPAA violations discovered by the Office for Civil Rights (OCR). In fact, during the last round of audits, 86% of Covered Entities, or practices, couldn’t produce a compliant SRA.
The OCR has also introduced the Risk Analysis Initiative, focusing on this document when investigating practices. Since the end of 2024, there have been 10 enforcements of this initiative, totalling over a million dollars in fines. During any investigation, the OCR can and will ask you to provide proof of this document.
This document sets the groundwork for compliance in your practice and is key to proving proactive compliance if a situation arises.
However, completing an SRA is easier said than done. With intricate complexities and the different areas of your practice that must be reviewed, it’s tough to figure out where to start.
Manually completing an SRA takes time and is prone to mistakes. Hiring a third-party consultant can get expensive, and you could lose patient time if they need to close your practice while completing the documentation.
Streamlining the SRA
There is a better way.
Abyde has released its Security Risk Analysis for Covered Entities solution to simplify completing this documentation.
While this feature is implemented in the full HIPAA for Covered Entities product, alongside training, dynamic policy and procedure documentation generation, Business Associate Agreements, event logs, live support, and more, Abyde has created our latest product to assist practices in taking their first step toward compliance.
The Security Risk Analysis for Covered Entities solution is crafted for healthcare practices and streamlines the SRA into an intuitive questionnaire. Instead of closing your practice for the day, complete this questionnaire within an hour with cloud-based software.
After completion, the Security Risk Analysis software for healthcare will generate a Scorecard report, highlighting any recommendations for your practice to achieve compliance.
The full SRA only needs to be completed once. After that, the software prompts you with ongoing questions whenever updates are required. For example, if your practice isn’t encrypting emails, it will flag this as a high risk and remind you on a monthly basis until your practice takes the proper precautions.
Enjoy the SRA? You can easily upgrade the Security Risk Analysis software for healthcare to Abyde’s full HIPAA for Covered Entities product and maintain your SRA.
Get Compliant Today
A Security Risk Analysis doesn’t have to be complicated or time-consuming.
With Abyde’s Security Risk Analysis for Covered Entities software, your practice can complete a thorough, compliant SRA quickly and accurately, without disrupting patient care.
Ready to streamline your SRA? Meet with a compliance consultant today.
