RELEASE March 13‚ 2012 Contact: HHS Press Office (202) 690-6343 HHS settles HIPAA case with BCBST for $1.5 million First enforcement action resulting from HITECH Breach Notification Rule Blue Cross Blue Shield of Tennessee (BCBST) has agreed to pay the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) $1‚500‚000 to settle potential violations of the Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act of 1996 (HIPAA) Privacy and Security Rules‚ Leon Rodriguez‚ Director of the HHS Office for Civil
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Employee Data Protection Policies (HIPAA) We here at IRSC BAS‚ Inc. must take our employee data protection very seriously. Not only is it a priority and our obligation to protect our employees; but it is also our government’s requirement that we do so. The establishment and monitoring of the Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act (HIPAA) is the responsibility of our Human Resource department. HR needs to establish a strict Employee Data Protection Policy that contains clear and
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Compelling Aspects of Rebecca Skloot’s The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks Throughout my nineteen years of education‚ I have learned many lessons from the few books read‚ but none has caught my eye just from the title until now. The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks brings readers back to the 1950’s by retracing to the popular cancer cells of Henrietta Lacks. This specific book‚ by Rebecca Skloot‚ brought tears to my eyes along with joy in my heart as this black woman dies of cancer while her cells
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In The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks by Rebecca Skloot mentions animal experimentation. Different kinds of animals are used in many different experiments. Most experiments are used to help humans more than to help animals. Animal experimentation should not happen because most of the time‚ experiments can lead to animal cruelty. Cloning is one example of an experiment. The National Human Genome Research Institute wrote an article explaining cloning. Cloning is an interesting topic that does happen
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“The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks” become attached to objects that are meaningful to them. It is noticed that a certain object had a significant meaning by analyzing the scene and the character. Dr. Geys assistant‚ Mary described Henrietta Lacks red nail polish on her toes. She described Henrietta being an actual woman‚ something Mary never thought of. Henrietta’s relatives described Henrietta with her red nail polish. The red nail polish was a meaningful object to Henrietta because it completed
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Sample HIPAA Breach Notification Letter [Patient Name] [Patient Address] Dear [Patient]: We are sending this letter to you as part of [Provider]’s commitment to patient privacy. We take patient privacy very seriously‚ and it is important to us that you are made fully aware of a potential privacy issue. We have learned that your personal information‚ including name‚ address‚ ___________‚ ___________‚ and __________‚ may have been compromised. On [give date of discovery]‚ it was discovered
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On February sixth‚ 1951 Henrietta Lacks‚ a black tobacco farmer from south Virginia‚ went to Johns Hopkins hospital to be treated for cervical cancer‚ she was treated by Dr. Lawrence Wharton Jr. He prepared her for her treatment and dilated her cervix‚ but before beginning the treatment he‚ without her permission‚ shaved two dime sized pieces of tissue one from her tumor and one from her healthy tissue then‚ he placed them in glass dishes. Those glass dishes were given to Dr. George Gey and his assistant
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Tiffany Tavarez Mr. Gilliam INS 110 September 21‚ 2014 Library Assignment The topic I chose for the library assignment was “racism in medical treatment”. I felt that this topic comes up in the novel‚ “The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks” by Rebecca Skloot multiple times and also relates to the theme “voice” which is what we have been focusing on in our First-Year Experience class. Even though the time of “racism” is over‚ there are still acts of discrimination in the field of medicine. Many
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Checkpoint: HIPAA Privacy Rule‚ Exemptions‚ and Compliance Plans Describe in your own words the five provisions of the HIPAA Privacy Rule as noted in Chapter 2 and discuss the provision you feel is the best safeguard against unauthorized sharing of Protected Health Information (PHI). The HIPPA has many provisions in place to protect a person medically. One of those provisions is to protect a person’s private health information from getting into the wrong hands. Before this program there were
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who exemplifies class and fearlessness‚ and it is an honor to have researched her. In relation to class‚ she has the quick wit and way with words that we studied with Dorothy Parker‚ and gives off a maternal comfort that I felt when reading about Henrietta Lacks. She is the voice of the unconventional beauty who is brimming with personality who gets overlooked when it is time to choose a mate. Her way with words makes the reader want to continue reading. She keeps her words simple and elegant while
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