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checking-hipaa-compliance

Runs a HIPAA Privacy and Security Rule checklist over a data pipeline and produces a gap report before deploying OpenMed on PHI. Use when the user is about to process protected health information, needs a pre-deployment compliance review, wants to know which administrative, physical, and technical safeguards apply, is scoping a Business Associate Agreement, or must document minimum-necessary and de-identification controls. Trigger keywords: HIPAA, Privacy Rule, Security Rule, 45 CFR 164, PHI, BAA, business associate, minimum necessary, safeguards, Safe Harbor, Expert Determination, gap analysis, compliance review. Pairs adjacent to OpenMed: the checklist shows where openmed.deidentify and signed audit reports satisfy the de-identification and audit-control requirements. The control list lives in references/hipaa-checklist.md. This is a structured self-assessment aid, not legal advice.

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Reviews the quality of instructions and guidance provided to agents. Good implementation is clear, handles edge cases, and produces reliable results.

A well-structured, highly actionable compliance skill: executable quick start, concrete workflow ending in a gap report, real offloaded reference, and substantive edge cases. Minor gains available from trimming regulation re-explanation and adding an explicit remediate-and-re-verify loop to the workflow.

Suggestions

Add an explicit feedback loop to the Workflow section (e.g., step 7: remediate gaps and re-run the checklist before a go decision), which would raise workflow_clarity to a 5.

Trim 'The two paths to no longer PHI' to just the OpenMed API mapping and move the 45 CFR 164.514 regulation summary into references/hipaa-checklist.md.

In the frontmatter description, disambiguate the compliance-review trigger from the adjacent de-identification skills (e.g., lead with 'gap report' and 'pre-deployment compliance review' rather than bare Safe Harbor/minimum necessary).

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Conciseness

The body is dense and earns most of its tokens — quick-start code, a numbered workflow, and genuinely non-obvious edge cases ("Limited Data Sets are still PHI", "Logs and caches are PHI too"). It is held back from a 5 by the "two paths to no longer PHI" section, which re-explains Safe Harbor/Expert Determination regulation Claude already knows before mapping it to the API, and could be trimmed.

4 / 5

Actionability

The quick start is complete, copy-paste-ready Python using the real API surface (openmed.deidentify with policy/audit kwargs, report.sign), and each workflow step is concrete ("Pull only the fields the task needs", "attach the signed AuditReport as evidence"). Edge cases come with citations and remediation guidance, covering the common failure modes.

5 / 5

Workflow Clarity

The 6-step workflow is clearly sequenced from data-flow mapping to a per-control gap report with 45 CFR citations and a remediation owner — a solid checkpoint. It falls short of a 5 because there is no explicit feedback loop: after gaps are found, no step says remediate and re-run the checklist before go/no-go (the reference's A11 hints at it but the body workflow does not).

4 / 5

Progressive Disclosure

Proper overview structure: the body keeps motivation, quick start, and workflow, while the full control list is correctly offloaded to references/hipaa-checklist.md (verified to exist and be substantive), linked three times with clear signaling and exactly one level of depth. Section headers make navigation easy.

5 / 5

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Description

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Based on the skill's description, can an agent find and select it at the right time? Clear, specific descriptions lead to better discovery.

A strong description: third-person, concrete about what it produces, with an explicit and richly keyworded 'Use when' clause and clear scoping to OpenMed/PHI deployment. The only weakness is trigger overlap with adjacent de-identification skills on terms like Safe Harbor.

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Specificity

Concrete actions are named explicitly: "Runs a HIPAA Privacy and Security Rule checklist over a data pipeline and produces a gap report", plus documenting safeguards, minimum-necessary and de-identification controls, and scoping BAAs — comprehensive and specific, not vague. Third-person voice is used throughout ("Runs…", "Use when…"), so no voice penalty.

5 / 5

Completeness

Both what and when are answered explicitly: what — "Runs a HIPAA… checklist… and produces a gap report"; when — "Use when the user is about to process protected health information, needs a pre-deployment compliance review…" with concrete trigger phrases. Matches the 5-anchor example structure exactly.

5 / 5

Trigger Term Quality

The keyword list is exhaustive and natural: "HIPAA, Privacy Rule, Security Rule, 45 CFR 164, PHI, BAA, business associate, minimum necessary, safeguards, Safe Harbor, Expert Determination, gap analysis, compliance review" — covering synonyms, regulation numbers, and the abbreviations a user would actually say. Nothing natural is missing for this domain.

5 / 5

Distinctiveness Conflict Risk

The niche is clear (pre-deployment HIPAA gap review for PHI pipelines) and scoped via "before deploying OpenMed on PHI", but shared trigger terms like "Safe Harbor", "minimum necessary", and "de-identification" overlap with the adjacent OpenMed de-identification skills it references, creating minor conflict risk with closely related skills.

4 / 5

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Validation

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Validation — 16 / 16 Passed

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maziyarpanahi/openmed

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