Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act

HIPPA’S HITECH ACT, CYBERATTACKS CONTINUE TO RISE HIPPA’s HITECH Act and 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…

Bakr et al Clin J Pain  Volume 00, Number 00, ’’ 2016 6 | www.clinicalpain.com Copyright r 2016 Wolters Kluwer Health, Inc. All rights reserved. Copyright r 2016 Wolters Kluwer Health, Inc. Unauthorized reproduction of this article is prohibited. was a significant decrease in CD4, CD8, and CD56 in group M, compared with groups T and K and in CD3, CD8, and CD56 in group T compared with group K at 90 minutes postoperatively. After 24 hours, there was a decrease in CD4, and CD8 in group M in…

HIPAA was founded in 1996 in which created regulations regarding the protection and security of health information. Before HIPAA, there was not a set of regulations that protected health information in the health field. During this time, the health industry was starting to convert to electronic forms of records, in which the Security Rule was then founded. HIPAA Security Rule is the protection of health records specifically in the electronic form. This includes the transferring of electronic…

in which confidential health information can be disclosed without the patient's explicit consent Confidential health information can be disclosed under the following circumstances without the patient’s consent. Court orders and Subpoenas - when there is a court order made to have the health records available. The legal process to obtain health record information is through a subpoena. Statutory reports - Hospitals and medical personnel are required to report certain health information to…

Social workers provide services to individuals and develop a professional relationship based on trust and consent. “Consistent with social workers’ longstanding embrace the principle of client self-determination, informed consent procedures require social workers to obtain clients permission before releasing confidential information to third parties; allowing clients to be photographed, videotaped, or audiotaped by the media, professionals, or other parties; permitting clients to participate in…

Reflective Assignment Mary Carnahan HA 413 Current Issues in Health Information Management May 10, 2016 Week Two What I learned in “Health Care Information Systems” Chapter five “Clinical Information Systems” In this chapter I learned how the clinical information system can have an impact on patient quality, outcomes, and safety. I learned 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…

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…

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 identify what specifically to monitor. When identifying potential risks it is important to focus on the enforcement actions of…

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 definition, any health status…

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,” which records who accessed your information, what changes were made and when. Most health providers being covered entities have HIPAA responsibilities to ensure the privacy and security of EHR’s.…