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What is HIPAA (#1)? HIPAA stands for “Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act”, and it was passed by congress in 1996. The act was designed to reform healthcare in such a way that would provide protection to workers who changed or lost their jobs, ensure the confidentiality of patients medical information, and increase efficiency in the healthcare system by standardizing the processes of medical data storage and transmission (Bowers, Donna Par. 1). What is the HIPAA Privacy Rule…

The first one is the Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act of 1996 (HIPAA). This federal legislation defines what health information must be protected and stipulates what must be done to protect patients’ privacy and security. It is applied to all apply to all healthcare providers, health plans…

people, it is a right entitled to everyone. In this modern world with smart phones and social media, it can be a challenge to recognize the boundary lines of privacy when taking care of critically ill patients. The Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act was passed by Congress in 1996 to define the rules and regulations concerning multiple topics, one of which is called the Privacy Rule (Mcgowan pg. 61). This rule established national standards to protect patients’ personal health…

Security Assessment Today’s focus on health information security is built on a long history of concern with the privacy of information obtained during a caregiver-patient encounter. Naughton, Callanan, Guerandel, and Malone (2012) stated that while privacy and confidentiality are the goals, they are not the main issues when dealing with health information technology in electronic health records (EHRs). The primary issue is information security. Moreover, Hayhurst (2014) stated that privacy is…

standardized made it easier to gather and compare information, which lead to further advancement of the medical field as a whole. More change for the medical health record came in 1996 when congress passed the Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act (HIPPA) which require national standards for EHR’s ("Medical Records: A Brief History » Medical Coding Degree," n.d.). According to Amy Savage, a Professor at Baker College of Flint, “The health record has been officially migrating from…

staff knowing their health conditions. According to (Rosenthal, 2014), some providers contend that releasing information might somehow compromise patient privacy and confidentiality concerns laid out in HIPAA, the Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act of 1996. This is another issue patient’s face, and it’s the same with my dental office. New patients are especially resistant to giving out their medical/ health history and having their dental records sent over because of fear of…

The patient safety umbrella covers multiple portions of the health care industry and can include such issues as: falls, medication errors, wrong site surgery, pressure ulcers, and transitions of care (Jayanthi, 2014). As new problems arise in a hospital or patient care setting they are often pushed under the patient safety umbrella. At a local university medical center, there are almost 3,000 patient safety policies (JH, personal communication, April 30, 2016). Additionally, this medical center…

HealthIT Topic of Week Valerie Ritter Chamberlain College of Nursing Nursing Informatics NR 512 Dr. Rebecca Glenn October 1, 2016 HealthIT Topic of Week Nursing informatics has an impact on every advanced practice profession in nursing. The impact that it plays on the nurse executives holds so much importance. According to Simpson (2013), nurse executives sit at the executive table during technology evaluations and routinely find themselves ill prepared to debate with their physician…

Electronic Health Record Implementation Advancements in technology have grown rapidly over the years, even integrating itself into the medical field. Gone are the days of paper charting and handwritten prescriptions allowing for a decrease in medical errors and an increase in patient safety. With the attacks on September 11, 2001, the nation acknowledged a need for standardized electronic health records. Many facilities have already implemented the use of electronic health records; however,…

“Pharma Bro” Martin Shkreli, CEO of Turing Pharmaceuticals raised the price on a drug to treat infections in AIDS patients by 5,000%, from $13.50 a pill to $750 a pill thus shining a global spotlight on the United States’ precarious healthcare market. Shkreli has become the ogre of healthcare. Yet other companies have jacked up prices just as much as Shkreli did, with no consequences other than soaring stock prices. In September of 2016, the makers of the Epipen (The Epi-pen is only the…