The HIPAA Act which stands for Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act and acted in 1996. HIPAA laws created a new national standard in protecting people’s health information. Whenever some body visits nowadays the hospital has a little page that you sign letting them know that you acknowledge that the physician office has notify you about their compliance with the Health Insurance Portability and Accountability laws. The Health Insurance Portability and Accountability laws were put into place in protect people from things like identity thief, being denied health care, and or health insurance coverage. The Health Insurance Portability and Accountability laws created a standard in protecting people’s health information. As people
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The Health Insurance Portability and Accountability laws protect personally identifiable health information such as a person’s social secutrty number, birthday, address, etc. It also protects a person’s current, past, or even future physical and or metal conditions or treatment. In 1996 congress passed the HIPAA law, but did not pass a federal medical privacy statute, so the Department of Health and Human Services was required to develop regulation that specified patients’ rights to health privacy. In 2001 President George W. Bush implemented the Human Services Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act “Privacy Rule” which recognized the “right of consent”. One year later in 2002 Human Services amended the Health Insurance Portability and Accountability “Privacy Rule”, eliminating the “right of …show more content…
Impact on the design of the doctor’s office
When the Health Insurance Portability and Accountability act of 1996 was introduce it set forth new rules on how doctors protect the privacy of a patient’s protected health information. The Health Insurance Portability and Accountability act of 1996 made it so that patient charts should not be located in a place where people could easily see them. Doctor’s office had to keep patient charts out of the view of other patients and or visitors.
This wasn’t only for patient charts. Computer with patient information on them should also be put in a place where patients and visitors could not view them. This meant the doctors’ offices needed to place their computers in a secured location away from other patients and or visitors. If a computer was going to be used in a public place where other might be able to see. Then a 3M privacy screen should be used in order to keep other patients and or visitors from seeing what might be on the screen at any giving
The Health Insurance Portability and Accountability laws protect personally identifiable health information such as a person’s social secutrty number, birthday, address, etc. It also protects a person’s current, past, or even future physical and or metal conditions or treatment. In 1996 congress passed the HIPAA law, but did not pass a federal medical privacy statute, so the Department of Health and Human Services was required to develop regulation that specified patients’ rights to health privacy. In 2001 President George W. Bush implemented the Human Services Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act “Privacy Rule” which recognized the “right of consent”. One year later in 2002 Human Services amended the Health Insurance Portability and Accountability “Privacy Rule”, eliminating the “right of …show more content…
Impact on the design of the doctor’s office
When the Health Insurance Portability and Accountability act of 1996 was introduce it set forth new rules on how doctors protect the privacy of a patient’s protected health information. The Health Insurance Portability and Accountability act of 1996 made it so that patient charts should not be located in a place where people could easily see them. Doctor’s office had to keep patient charts out of the view of other patients and or visitors.
This wasn’t only for patient charts. Computer with patient information on them should also be put in a place where patients and visitors could not view them. This meant the doctors’ offices needed to place their computers in a secured location away from other patients and or visitors. If a computer was going to be used in a public place where other might be able to see. Then a 3M privacy screen should be used in order to keep other patients and or visitors from seeing what might be on the screen at any giving