HIPAA Compliances

The purpose of this paper is to report what the author has learned about the compliance of Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act (HIPAA) during their service learning project. This paper will go over HIPAA and its background in the beginning. It will also go over the issues that Dwight David Eisenhower Army Medical Center (DDEAMC) have with the compliance of HIPAA. Next the author will go over how Dwight David Eisenhower Army Medical Center (DDEAMC) has choose to track the compliance of HIPAA. The author will go over the way the HIPAA compliance officer tracks the compliance of HIPAA on employees and the consequences for not being in compliance with HIPAA. Congress passed HIPAA in 1996 with the intent of setting standards to protect healthcare data and its exchange and regulations on privacy (Centers for Medicare and Medicaid, 1996). The purpose of HIPAA act is to protect and enhance the rights of patients by providing them with access to their health information and controlling the inappropriate use or disclosure of that information (Newby, 2009). Another purpose of the act is to improve the …show more content…
McAfee. He is the one and only HIPAA compliance officer at Dwight David Eisenhower Army Medical Center (DDEAMC) and he handles every HIPAA issue in the hospital. DDEAMC has to deal with a lot of issues when it comes to making sure the staff is 100% in compliance with HIPAA. Making sure the whole hospital is in compliance with HIPAA is a difficult task because the staff is spread out through a lot of buildings that are spread across Fort Gordon. Some of the staff expressed that HIPAA training is easy as long as you know what the Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act covers and who to ask if something is questionable. The author could see the stress on Mr. McAfee’s face from making sure that all of the staff within the hospital are trained on HIPAA