The Importance Of HIPAA Exposure To Privacy
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HIPAA’s intent is to protect the privacy of patient’s health care information. “However, a fair number of providers have not adopted and implemented policies” for both the security and privacy rules associated with the HIPAA (HIPAA investigation risks are increasing, 2015, p. 86). This is knowledge that is crucial to privacy; because, it is an indication of exposure to risk for the patient protected health information. This exposure is during health care transactions directly with providers and indirectly with entities during electronic billing or some other encounter.
Therefore, those offices that are not up to speed and fully compliant with HIPAA Privacy rules make potentially expensive mistakes because of the lack of training and how they share patient information. For example, “the patient has the right to restrict in writing who may receive their medical record” (Krasner, 2015, p. 73). However, uninformed entities may share protected information with parties they should not share it with because they are ill informed on the …show more content…
appropriate procedure to be used when sharing specific information to relatives or others.
Consider, the unaware nurse that tells a father not to worry, his newborn did not contract HIV from his positive mother, a condition the father does not know the mother has, a real breach has occurred.
Their husband and wife status does not mean the spouse is required to disclose their full health record. After all, one of the reasons HIPAA exists is to give “ patients more control over and access to their medical information” (Lawson, Orr, & Klar, 2003, p. 127).
References
HIPAA Investigation Risks Are Increasing...Reprinted with permission from The Journal of Medical Practice Management, Sep/Oct 2014, pgs 119-123. (2015). Podiatry Management, 34(7), 85-90 5p.
Krasner, J. (2015). What You Should Know About the HIPAA Privacy Rule. AAOS Now, 9(11), 72-75.
Lawson, N. A., Orr, J. M., & Klar, D. S. (2003). The HIPAA Privacy Rule: An Overview of Compliance Initiatives and Requirements. Defense Counsel Journal, 70(1),
127.
HIPAA’s intent is to protect the privacy of patient’s health care information. “However, a fair number of providers have not adopted and implemented policies” for both the security and privacy rules associated with the HIPAA (HIPAA investigation risks are increasing, 2015, p. 86). This is knowledge that is crucial to privacy; because, it is an indication of exposure to risk for the patient protected health information. This exposure is during health care transactions directly with providers and indirectly with entities during electronic billing or some other encounter.
Therefore, those offices that are not up to speed and fully compliant with HIPAA Privacy rules make potentially expensive mistakes because of the lack of training and how they share patient information. For example, “the patient has the right to restrict in writing who may receive their medical record” (Krasner, 2015, p. 73). However, uninformed entities may share protected information with parties they should not share it with because they are ill informed on the …show more content…
appropriate procedure to be used when sharing specific information to relatives or others.
Consider, the unaware nurse that tells a father not to worry, his newborn did not contract HIV from his positive mother, a condition the father does not know the mother has, a real breach has occurred.
Their husband and wife status does not mean the spouse is required to disclose their full health record. After all, one of the reasons HIPAA exists is to give “ patients more control over and access to their medical information” (Lawson, Orr, & Klar, 2003, p. 127).
References
HIPAA Investigation Risks Are Increasing...Reprinted with permission from The Journal of Medical Practice Management, Sep/Oct 2014, pgs 119-123. (2015). Podiatry Management, 34(7), 85-90 5p.
Krasner, J. (2015). What You Should Know About the HIPAA Privacy Rule. AAOS Now, 9(11), 72-75.
Lawson, N. A., Orr, J. M., & Klar, D. S. (2003). The HIPAA Privacy Rule: An Overview of Compliance Initiatives and Requirements. Defense Counsel Journal, 70(1),
127.