Electronic Communications Privacy Act

"AMA Journal of Ethics." VM. N.p., n.d. Web. 18 Mar. 2016. Over hundreds of years, patient confidentiality laws and privacy in health care settings has grown stronger and stricter, allowing patients to feel comfortable when speaking to their physicians. It was not only the patient-physician relationship that demonstrated the need for patient confidentiality, but there are also a variety of outside forces and factors that contributed to this discovery. History has shown that patient…

with technology advancing. Although, individuals are more to blame than the government, both are at fault. Individuals are careless about the things they do on the internet but are quick to care when they learn their privacy is being invaded. In the video “Why Care About Internet Privacy?” by Epipheo, Alan Henry from Lifehacker.com stated “every time you click from one website to another you click the link to go to the next page and that`s information that people are collecting about you. That…

The Health Insurance Probability and Accountability Act (HIPAA) was enacted by Congress in 1996 in response to the infancy of health information technology and the modern flow of health information. The initial focus of the HIPAA was to protect health insurance coverage for workers and their families if they were to lose or change their jobs (Bowers, 2001) but, as technology continued to advance laws were also developed to protect patient information as it passed through a full spectrum of…

security HIPAA data is driven by mandatory requirements and the potential to improve the quality of healthcare delivery meanwhile reducing the costs, these massive quantities of data. To deliver the quality of healthcare information, it is referred to electronic health data is sets to be extremely large and complex which cause difficulty to use with traditional software or hardware in a data management tools or methods. Looking at what the future will hold for security HIPPA data that can…

did it come to be of importance in the health industry?) The Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act (HIPAA) was passed on August 21, 1996. Its primary goals were to make health care delivery more efficient and to increase the number of Americans with health insurance coverage, especially those who lost or were between jobs. Initially there were three main provisions of the Act: the portability provisions, the tax provisions, and the administrative simplification provisions. With…

The ability of retain patient records digitally reshaped the health sector giving providers a chance to store patient information in a central location, along with the ability to effortlessly share archives among medical staff. Electronic health record programs are a novel product and organizations are constantly working to apply and improve the software, EMR are evolving daily and allows more options to physicians. The original data handling software were invented around the 1960’s…

Out of all constitutional issues, one would think that the Patriot Act was the most serious for the country’s well being because the act allowed the government to spy on citizens, violating the Fourth Amendment. The United States was at one of the tensest times, which was the attack that occurred on 9/11, and the Congress was bullied by the Bush administration to pass the act. Not only did the act violate the Fourth Amendment, it also contravened with the First Amendment by not telling others…

the Patriot Act. On January 6, 2014, U.S. Senator Bernie Sanders sent a letter to the NSA wondering is the NSA is currently or have you been spying on any people in the Congress? The NSA responded to the question saying they are. There is a program that…

encryption of emails on business computers. If computer policies are violated this can lead to punitive action, whether there will be warning will be given before any action is taken, and what result will be. There should be a zero-tolerance policy for communications that is disrespectful, biased, or harassment. (Rawson, 2015). The board of directors should have a similar internet abuse policy like the one for the lower level employees. The board of directors at some point would have to make…

When regulating the right to privacy, federalism faces certain limitations which include the following. First, the probability that it might lead to discrimination from a person’s skin color, race, religion or political affiliation is high (Bellia, 2008). People in positions of leadership at the state levels are likely to dominate those they lead by hiding critical information from them. Or stop and frisk policy require that the police detain suspects and sometimes even civilians temporarily for…