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trends. Insurance companies also benefited greatly from this new trend by having better information to warrant payment of bills and possibly deny benefits. Medical research was another area of growth. Having this information 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)…

defines and enforces accountability, privacy and security by addressing violations as a result of neglect on behalf on a covered entity. The Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act of 1996 was enacted to ensure that health plans and health providers legally protect the privacy of information in an individual’s health record. The Health Insurance Portability and…

about EHRs and how PHRs are not protected under HIPPA unless “a health care provider or a health plan that offers a PHR as one of its services. If that is the case, the PHR comes under the federal privacy and security rules that protect your medical records” (Privacy Rights Clearinghouse, 2012). Chapter six “Federal Efforts to Enhance Quality of Patient Care through the Use of Health…

One of the key roles a health information management (HIM) professional holds is to serve as a guardian of patient health records. HIM professionals should be equipped with the knowledge to uphold the “care, custody, and control of the records” concerning legal action or an investigation (Kearney, 2014). Because the use of patient health records has switched from paper to electronic health records (EHR), it is necessary for HIM professionals to acquaint themselves with their institutions…

Inspector General (IG) of the Department of Defense (DoD) of which I am employed. Due to my position within the aforementioned federal regulatory agency, it is difficult to design a monitoring and auditing plan for issues within my industry because DCIS does not implement a compliance program comparable to what we regulate. Therefore, in order to complete this assignment, I will act as if I were a compliance officer within the healthcare industry. The first step of monitoring and auditing is to…

Clinical trials involve the production of large quantities of information that need to be recorded in order to analyze them for adverse events, patient profile, etc. Electronic record keeping has changed the manner in which information about trials and patients are stored and accessed. Electronic records also serve as a means for researchers to access information about previous trials in order to find if there is any data that had been overlooked but might be of use. The terms data and…

Title II procedural policies focus on fraud and abuse within Health Care industries. Because this title is so extensive, it can be further broken down into 5 rules. These rules include- the Privacy Rule and the Final Omnibus Rule update, the Transactions and Code Sets Rule, the Security Rule, the Unique Identifiers Rule, also known as the National Provider Identifier, and the Enforcement Rule. The Privacy rule regulates the use and disclosure of Protected Health Information (PHI), which is, by…

A number of measures can be taken to ensure the security of EHR’s. A few of them are already built in to the EHR. • “Access control” tools like passwords and PIN numbers, to limit access to patient information to authorized individuals, like the patient's doctors or nurses. • "Encrypting" stored information. That means health information cannot be read or understood except by someone who can “decrypt” it, using a special “key” made available only to authorized individuals. • An “audit trail,”…

Health Parity and Addiction Equity Act (MHPAEA) and the associated rules have been in place now for most health plans and employers for 7 years. The Interim Final Rules were effective for health plan renewals on or after July 1, 2009, while the Final Rules became effective for renewals on or after July 1, 2014. So why an article on MHPAEA now in 2016? Because we continue to see many non-compliant plan designs on the market, including designs by states and the federal government, and compliance…

In 2005 the Patient Safety and Quality Act, or PSQIA, was established; the significance being that the Federal Government wanted to establish a commitment to creating a culture of patient safety and confidentiality. This act is incredibly involved; requiring doctors and physicians to undergo observations and evaluations to ensure that there is no malpractice of any kind. The PSQIA created Patient Safety Organizations to analyze, gather, and create a specialized conglomerate of information that…