Profession Responsibilities This paper will discuss the federal law that governs Protected Health Information (PHI) and the elements of compliance that must be met. This paper will also describe two examples of improper privacy disclosure and some challenges a medical office might have maintaining strict confidentiality. The federal law that governs Protected Health Information (PHI) is the Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act (HIPAA) of 1996 ("Summary of the‚"). HIPAA’s goal is
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procedure and policies against leaking personal health information (PHI) will maintain and promote growth of an organization. Identifying different forms of security breaches and instituting measures to implement and safeguard specific standards‚ policies‚ and procedures against leaking e-PHIs to attackers and hackers‚ will maintain patients’ integrity and promote growth of the organization. To maintain the confidentiality of e-PHIs‚ HIPAA created privacy rule‚ security rule‚ and HITECH. These rules
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themselves as part of the construction industry whereas the other 82 firms regard themselves as part of the mining industry. Question 2: Provide an interpretation of the analysis output for Safety Rating (X9) and Type of Industry (X10). Answer 2: The phi value was 2.25 (greater than one) which indicating a positive relationship between safety rating and the type of industry. The p-value is 0.011 which is less than the level of significance of 5%. The test statistic (Chi-square= 6.04) is higher than
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Privacy Rules 1 Abstract The wisdom of the HIPAA Privacy Rules was to create national standards to protect the privacy of personal health information. This Rule took effect in April‚ 2003 and provides protections to every patient whose information is collected‚ used or disclosed by covered entities. The paper will provide information on HIPAA’s Privacy Rules‚ the effect on medical providers and patients. Also‚ it will give recommendations on how to improve the implementation of this
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投资学： 1. Here are the different between Ordinary shares and Preference Shares. Characteristics of Ordinary shares: a.Ordinary shares are issued with a nominal value，there is no maturity date in Stock‚ b.The value of stock is determined by the demand of secondary market for equities. c.The main source of ordinary shares is the capital. d.The dividends payable are depends on the company profits and policy. e.Ordinary shares can free transfer. f.Have voting rights. g.Has High risk. h.Ordinary
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that receives‚ processes and handles PHI. a) All business associates where held accountable to the same standard. b) Majority of the PHI violations were caused by outside agencies (O&P Almanac‚ 2016) c) The top 10 health care data breaches accounted for more than 111 million records that were lost‚ stolen‚ or inappropriately disclosed (O&P Almanac‚ 2016) 3) How the additional changes made to the HITECH Act and HIPAA increased awareness and compliance of PHI. a) Civil Rights office never implemented
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records. It is also necessary to know what constitutes consent and authorization under HIPAA as far as when they are permitted to disclose only the minimum necessary PHI and when it does not impose a restriction. It is good for the employees to know and understand the reasons for the precautions that should be taken when faxing a PHI (Miller‚ King‚ & Wise‚
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A personal quality that is important to me is my willingness to try new things. This quality did not surface until I graduated high school-- I felt somewhat restricted during those years. After my first semester at community college the eagerness to explore new activities‚ and learn about new topics began to appear. Because of this quality-- a quality that can sometimes hide amongst the rest-- I would not have discovered by passion for my desired major. During my time in community college‚ I have
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The kinetic equation‚ half-life values‚ correlation coefficient and pre-harvest interval (PHI) of the trifloxystrobin and tebuconazole residue dissipation were calculated from the experimental data and summarized in Table 4. The dissipation dynamics of trifloxystrobin on green tea leaves followed a first-order rate equation as follows C = 2.5472e-0.245x (r=0.9797) and C = 6.5457e-0.207x (r= 0.9804) with the half-life of 2.83 and 3.34 days for trifloxystrobin at RD and DRD‚ respectively. The half-life
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HIPAA is Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act. It is a federal act with guidelines for standardizing the electronic data interchange of administrative and financial transactions‚ exposing fraud and abuse‚ and protecting PHI. This law is designed to protect people’s private health information‚ to ensure health insurance coverage for workers and their families when they change or lose their jobs‚ uncover fraud and abuse‚ and create standards for electronic transmission of healthcare
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