Accountability

I did not know what HIPAA is or what the acronym stood for. The Health Insurance Portability & Accountability Act of 1996 is more important than I thought. The intent of HIPAA is to provide a level security for health information. It also adds an administrative simplification by standardization of formats, codes and identifiers. HIPAA allows me to have control over my health care information which permits me the right to view my documents anytime I need to. The privacy rule affects the daily…

rights, one of those rights is privacy. Privacy can be defined as concealing personal information. In some cases, it is of concealing health information of patient and/or residents of medical facilities. HIPAA or Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act protects our right to privacy. PHI to be exact, or protected health information. PHI is secured under the HIPAA Privacy Rule. HIPPA helps ensure the protection of documents that could be identifiable to the individual by medical…

Firstly, the history of HIPPA is the most important. HIPPA is short for The Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act which is originally known as the Kennedy-Kassebaum Bill, a set of regulations that became a law in 1996. Its purpose is to help people carry their health insurance from one business to the next, as well as restructure the movement of medical records from one health care institution to another. According to Skloot she states “Today, no scientist would dream of…

Internet, e-mail, fax machines, and computers. It becomes a challenge for medical providers to secure patients’ confidentiality. “In order to address the concern for patients’ privacy, Congress mandated that the Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act of 1996 (HIPAA) enforce its privacy provision by April 14, 2003.” (Fremgen, 2012) Based on HIPAA, its “primary goal is to make it easier for people to keep…

HIPPA (The Insurance Portability and Accountability Act of 1996) is a culmination off laws that protect an individual’s health care information, it also protects who can have access to their records. As with any laws there are issues with HIPPA. HIPPA has its importance in nursing care. Consumer brochures also play a significant role in HIPPA. “Privacy and confidentiality are basic rights in our society. Safeguarding those rights, with respect to an individual’s personal health information, is…

electronic portals for patients and physicians. Laws such as the Health Information Accountability Act sets standards that health care providers must follow to ensure patient privacy. The purpose of this paper is to describe the Electronic Health Record (EHR) mandate and discuss how the Cleveland Clinic has implemented the EHR. In addition to explaining how meaningful use and what the Health Information Accountability Act (HIPAA) is and how violating the law can threatens patient…

1. What heath care policy did you choose? Why did you choose this one? Define the policy and describe the history behind it. The Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act (HIPAA) is a health care policy that I choose. I chose this policy because at my place of employment in an assisted living facility, I am required to follow this policy and as my career as a nurse progresses I will always abide by HIPAA. HIPAA is a piece of federal legislation that was signed into law in 1996. The…

Omnibus rule were enacted to prevent data breaches in healthcare; however, healthcare data breaches are on the rise. Since its enactment in 1996, several provisions have been incorporated into the original Health Information Profitability and Accountability Act (HIPAA), one of which is the Health Information Technology for Economic and Clinical Health Act (HITECH): In 2009, The U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) enacted the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act, which includes…

infrastructures are exceedingly powerless against potential assaults or harm caused from internal and external threats. Meeting standardize compliance requirements developed by the Sarbanes-Oxley (SOX) Act and the Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act (HIPAA) is critical to reduce potentials assaults to guarantee their infrastructures are secure to the best degree possible by substituting data frameworks regulations. Technical security recommendations to improve ABC Healthcare…

Now that management has all the necessary tools at their disposal, they need to make a decision as to what best suits their organization’s needs. Regola and Chawla (2013) suggest that there needs to be a certain method to the approach of creating HIPAA compliant controls, which starts with Risk Analysis and Management, then flows to Administrative Safeguards, followed by Physical Safeguards, and finally Technical Safeguards (Regola & Chawla, 2013). To begin with, they suggest that a check needs…