Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act

The purpose of this paper is to report what the author has learned about the compliance of Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act (HIPAA) during their service learning project. This paper will go over HIPAA and its background in the beginning. It will also go over the issues that Dwight David Eisenhower Army Medical Center (DDEAMC) have with the compliance of HIPAA. Next the author will go over how Dwight David Eisenhower Army Medical Center (DDEAMC) has choose to track the…

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 identify predictive…

President George W Bush dated April 27, 2004, the office of the National Coordinator for Health Information Technology (Health IT) was created within the office of secretary of health and human services its mission was to construct the infrastructure for the development and implementation of a nationwide health information technology system that will be available to all Americans by 2014. With this new system, Health care facilities will have the ability to share patient information with their…

The Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act of 1996 (HIPAA) “is a large set of health care regulation and standards that protect the privacy of patients’ medical records and other personal health information. “HIPAA is broad in scope; covers a whole host of health care providers, facilities, and entities; and has had sweeping implications for the health care industry” Pointer, 2006). The HIPAA Privacy regulations require health care providers and companies, including their business…

technology (IT) 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…

information and no more than the supposed to? There are different regulations to protect the information shared and also to release the information that needs to be shared, the perfect examples are; Freedom of Information Act (FOIA), HIPPA, and Sarbanes-Oxley Act. The first act we will talk about…

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…

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 major two provisions of the law created a structure for maintaining health insurance coverage when…

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 responsibilities of health care providers…

The Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act (HIPAA) passed in 1996 to help set a national standard to protect certain patient health information (Gartee, 2011). The major goal of HIPAA is to ensure a patient’s Health Information (PHI) is utilized by the correct individuals at the correct time to perform a certain job. In addition, HIPPA sets the standards by which PHI can be shared with covered entities and family; plus allowing the patient to receive notice on how their PHI will…