This standard specifies the design, recording, and maintenance of audit trails and audit data, which are used to record all activities in a patient's electronic protected health information (ePHI) and the electronic information systems that host the patient's ePHI information (or any portion thereof). It outlines the scope, purposes, definitions, minimum data elements, access rights, and maintenance requirements for audit data and audit trails, and the security management needed. The standard addresses (1) creating a new patient record, (2) accessing a patient record or any portion thereof, (3) entering data into a patient's record, (4) changing or modifying a patient's record, (5) deleting a patient's record, (6) querying a patient's record, and (7) all other authorized and unauthorized user access data in the patient's ePHI. The standard covers both the audit trails that track the data creations, accesses, views, entries, changes, modifications, deletions, exports, printing, copy and paste actions, scans and imports, and queries and the underlying audit data that shows what activity was performed by the authorized or unauthorized user.
- Standard Committee
- EMB/Stds Com - Standards Committee
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- Active PAR
- PAR Approval
- 2026-09-25
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- IEEE Engineering in Medicine and Biology Society
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- EMB/Stds Com - Standards Committee
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- Audit Trail Standard - Audit Trail and Audit Data Requirement Specifications for Electronic Protected Health Information
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- Christian Orlando
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- Nursine Jackson
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