electronic devices. Healthcare is no different‚ trying to take advantage of technological breakthroughs in order to provide best possible care for the patients. With wide use of emails‚ the Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act (HIPAA) regulations get challenged every day and no healthcare organization wants to be on the wrong side of the law. “While rapid improvements in information technology may be seen by many as a blessing‚ when applied to the healthcare industry‚ these advances
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systems that contain PHI. In brief‚ the Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act‚ commonly known as HIPAA‚ was enacted on August 21‚ 1996‚ by the United States Congress and signed President Bill Clinton. HIPPA regulates national standards to protect individuals’ health information that is created‚ received‚ used‚ or maintained by a healthcare industry and non-healthcare industries. HIPAA Security Rule (Section 164.308) requires safeguards to ensure the confidentiality and security of electronic
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References: Amatayakul‚ M. (2003). HIPAA reins in shadow charts‚ independent databases. Journal of AHIMA‚ 74(9)‚ 16A-C Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. (2012). Global Health – International health regulations (2013). National notifiable infectious conditions. Retrieved from http://wwwn
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Kaiser Permanente leadership reacted quickly to mitigate the damage of the breach because the company was non-compliant with good information security practice and regulations such as the Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act of 1996 (HIPAA) which established standards for the
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been a security breach of policies and procedures concerning the protection of confidential client information. On numerous occasions‚ personnel who are working late have observed the cleaning staff reading discarded printouts. This is a violation of the HIPAA Laws‚ which are put in place to protect patients. This has taken place in a restricted-access IS department‚ and a problem like this should never have happened. All patient information printouts that are to be discarded should be shredded
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electronic medical record system. Throughout this essay‚ we will discuss the effect of the Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act on the privacy of patient electronic medical records. This article discusses the failures and successes of HIPAA‚ including the strong and weak points of the legislation. Lastly‚ we will discuss more recent attempts at achieving a national system of electronic medical records‚ and recent attempts to strengthen privacy. Introduction The quickly developing
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of 1996 known as HIPAA was approved by law to safeguard not only patients but also health care workers. However‚ sometimes people tend to violate these laws unintentionally or sometimes intentionally. According to an article from the Department of Health and Human Service website (2011)‚ HHS imposes a $4.3 million civil money penalty for violating HIPAA privacy rules on Cignet Health (U.S. Department of Health and Human Services‚ 2011). This paper will elaborate on the violation issue of Cignet Health
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Administrative Ethics Paper Michelle Hoagland Health Care and Social Responsibility/335 September 11‚ 2013 Mr. David Carmon Administrative Ethics Paper WellPoint‚ a managed care company‚ was investigated for violations of the Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act of 1996 and Security Rules. The investigation concluded WellPoint improperly “implement policies and procedures for authorizing access to the on-line application database‚ perform an appropriate technical evaluation
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The primary goal of HIPAA was to allow client’s ease of access to his or her own medical records in addition to providing mandated guidelines that require patient confidentiality (Woodside and McClam 2013‚ p. 118). HIPAA has affected the human service professional and client relationship in favorable ways. According to Joan Szabo‚ “the provider [of services is] required
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across patients that have the active HIV/AIDS virus and have not told their partners‚ husband‚ or wife that they have this sexual incurable disease. Yet‚ because of laws that I am to abide by such as HIPAA I cannot release that information to their significant other without losing my job and being in violation of the law. It is important to have this information shared with people who may have contracted a disease that someone is morally in capable of sharing with someone that they calm to “love”. These
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