9.6 SUMMARY

9.6 SUMMARY

Budgeting your HIPAA compliance plan is a fairly involved process which includes gathering the appropriate resources, obtaining the financial data you need, calculating your costs and writing your budget proposal. This section outlined how you go about working through these processes and quantifying the information you need to get the plan approved. One of the key elements to this process is to be able to articulate the merits of the plan on the basis of business need and alignment with the organization's strategic direction.

Bear in mind that your audience, the decision makers , set the strategic course for the organization and will look favorably on initiatives that help move it in that direction along with a good, sound financial basis.