CHM Purchasing - Role Responsible and Accountable for Business Associate Agreements

At the Center for Healthy Minds, the role responsible and accountable for making sure that business associate agreements are in place before CHM enables a service provider to begin to create, access, store or transmit ePHI on CHM’s behalf is CHM’s most senior Financial Specialist.

Policy
At the Center for Healthy Minds, the role responsible and accountable for making sure that business associate agreements are in place before CHM enables a service provider to begin to create, access, store or transmit ePHI on CHM’s behalf is CHM’s most senior Financial Specialist. https://policy.wisc.edu/library/UW-116

Definitions
A. baa = Business Associate Agreement
B. chm = Center for Healthy Minds
C. ephi = Electronic Protected Health Information
D. sjd = Standard Job Description

Procedures
The implementation, execution, and maintenance of this policy is the responsibility of the Center Administrator and/or the supervisor of CHM’s most senior Financial Specialist.

This role is identified as part of UW Madison’s Financial Specialist Standard Job Description (SJD)

This is additionally documented within the current Financial Specialist's expectations section of their performance evaluation, to ensure accountability.


Keywords:
HIPAA Risk Assessment Policy HR BAA ePHI SJD 
Doc ID:
130207
Owned by:
Brendon P. in Center for Healthy Minds
Created:
2023-08-08
Updated:
2026-06-01
Sites:
Center for Healthy Minds
Collection of CHM policies and procedures Purchasing at CHM