At a national level, the government has influence in the health care industry which is meant to ensure the compliance of policies and standards as it relate to the security and confidentiality of patient information. It is the responsibility of every member of a healthcare organization in protecting the quality, management, privacy and confidentiality of health care information kept within the HMIS of the healthcare organization, (Tan & Payton, 2010). The Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act (HIPAA) was enacted to accelerate the development of data standards to improve the privacy, confidentiality, integrity and security aspects of personal health information and to simplify the movement of individual patients’ protected health
