Clinical hardware retired without losing sight of ePHI
Point-of-care workstations, carts, and imaging PCs are barcoded at the department, sealed for transport, and returned as a certificate listing every drive by serial.
Clinical mobile workstation and cart retirement
A hospital runs hundreds of point-of-care workstations, computers on wheels, and nursing station desktops that cache diagnostic images and chart data. They are barcoded where they sit and go into sealed transit bins before they leave the floor.
BAA execution: Business Associate Agreements signed before collection.
Audit paperwork: drive serial numbers line by line with SHA-256 verification records.
Healthcare scope
45 CFR 164.310(d) device and media controls
Documented sanitization and custody transfer for each asset, which is what the physical safeguards standard asks a covered entity to show.
Diagnostic and lab equipment
Decommissioning of ultrasound consoles, telemetry PCs, and imaging workstations that hold embedded flash memory.
No clinic invoices
Hospital networks, surgery centers, and physician groups pay no pickup or disposal fee on lots of 10 or more devices.
Clearing a department, a clinic, or a whole floor?
Dispatch schedules collection around clinical hours, signs the Business Associate Agreement first, and returns a serialized Certificate of Data Sanitization for the lot.