...will summarize what was learned from the HIPAA tutorial, Why the Information is important, and how the information may be used in the future. Learned Information Information that was acquired from the tutorial was defined entities in reference to HIPAA such as health plans, healthcare clearing houses, and providers. HIPAA protects spoken, written, and electronic use of healthcare information. The entities must provide notice of privacy to each patient, obtain consent, respect the patient’s rights, and properly disclose of patient information. Written notice must be given by each healthcare provider and keep on file for at least six years (University of Phoenix, 2015). Importance of HIPAA The Importance of HIPPA is to ensure confidentiality, integrity, and accessibility. It guarantees patients access to their healthcare information and how it can be used. The healthcare providers must limit all disclosures in reference to patient’s health. Healthcare organizations have rules and regulations to follow, so they will not receive fines or jail time. Use of Information in the Future The use of the information from the tutorial of the HIPAA law is most useful for any individual who works in the...
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...HIPPA Joe Smith Independence University HCA 542A Mod 11:2011 8wk-online Final Paper October 10, 2011 HIPPA This paper will begin with a brief background and history on the Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act (HIPAA). Following the background will be details about issues that are address within the Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act. The purpose of this paper is to provide a foundation with providing some information about HIPAA. Background The Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act (HIPAA) was enacted by Congress in 1996 in response to several issues facing health care coverage, privacy, security and fraud in the United States (ALL THINGS MEDICAL BILLING, 2011, para. 2). Before HIPAA, rules and regulations varied by state, there was no real consistency. Also, there was confusion as to which regulations were applicable and to whom. Did the rules apply in the states where the organization was doing business or where the organization was based? There was also no uniformity between state and federal requirements (ALL THINGS MEDICAL BILLING, 2011, para. 3). With regard to privacy, there were numerous uncoordinated federal acts which addressed privacy in some form. Prior to HIPAA, there was no standard authority for enforcement of fraud and abuse that applied to state and federal health care programs (ALL THINGS MEDICAL BILLING, 2011, para. 4). Congress recognized the increased use...
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... issues pertaining to the privacy of a patient is not new to the medical arena. In the past the confidentiality between a patient and the doctor should have been taken seriously, however, was sometimes taken for granted, and information was passed to people with no need to know. In 1996 The Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act of 1996 (HIPPA) was legislated. Rules and regulations to guard patient privacy were brought to the forefront in the world of patient care. Safeguarding a patient’s electronic data continues to be a high emphasis in doctor/patient confidentiality. The issue that will be addressed in regard to violating patient privacy in this paper took place in a Minneapolis hospital in March 2011. The issue involved nearly 32 hospital employees who took it upon themselves to look up information on a number of patients who were part of a drug overdose incident. These employees were released from their positions at Unity Hospital, and Mercy Hospital in Allina, Minneapolis immediately after the violation was discovered. The discovered violation was deemed a HIPPA violation ("Allina Fires 32", 2011). The employees were released from their jobs when they electronically looked up records on a number of patients...
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...Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act (HIPPA) Privacy Rule Abstract As one of the regulations of the Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act (HIPPA) of 1996, Public Law 104-191; the HIPPA Privacy Rule sets “the standards for privacy of individually identifiable health information” (Speers, Wilcox, & Brown 2004). Established by the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) in 2002, this set of national standards deals with the use and disclosure of health information, in addition to the principles guiding patients’ rights over their health information; which includes the right to review, obtain a copy of their health records, and request corrections. The ultimate goal of the Privacy Rule is to protect the confidentiality of patients’ health information while enabling the use of this information for appropriate health care related purposes. Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act (HIPPA) Privacy Rule The Privacy Rule contains standards that outline terms for the electronic exchange, use, and privacy protection of patients’ personally identifiable medical information; also referred to as protected health information (PHI). These standards apply to the following covered entities: health clearinghouses, health plans, and health providers who transmit health information in electronic form; (Hoffman & Podgurski, 2007). Health clearinghouses are businesses that are utilized to process PHI into...
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...HIPPA: Security and Privacy Audits | MIS565 | | | | Abstract Companies who work with patient health care information are required to comply with the requirements of the Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act of 1996 (HIPAA). As such, the HHS rolled out a new audit initiative to assess compliance across the nation with the privacy and security standards for protected health information This paper focus on how the audit program of HIPPA works, what the covered entity can do to prepare for the audit, and what happens once the audit is complete. Introduction Ever since implementation of the HIPAA privacy and security standards, entities have been required to establish and maintain a variety of compliance mechanisms, including written policies and procedures, training of responsible workforce members, business associate agreements, relevant notices to patients or plan participants, and health plan document amendments. Until now, most compliance actions have been complaint-driven investigations arising from alleged violations of the HIPAA privacy or security standards (Arant, 2011). Pursuant to the HITECH Act, a more robust enforcement program was created to make a more ???? The U.S. Department of Health & Human Services' Office for Civil Rights (OCR) administers HIPAA (including the HITECH amendments) by investigating complaints, enforcing rights, promulgating regulations, developing policy and providing...
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...services (HHS) federally protects individuals’ health information held by covered entities and their business associates as well as other personal health information holders such as care providers, health insurance agents, medical billing departments etc. that conduct certain health care transactions electronically or via paper billing. The compliance of HIPPA is essential because it ensures and provides patient confidentiality in accordance with the law thereby protecting personal health information, and setting the limits and exclusions on the use and disclosure of patient information. The compliance of this law is also important to protect from identity theft via medical records. The HIPPA compliance law is passed by congress and impacts the staffs because it calls for an ethical duty to maintain the privacy of patients’ information that they share with their health care professionals or staff. Staffs and health care professionals should not share any information pertaining to the patient with anyone, and neither are they allowed to disclose any information to anyone without the consent of the patients themselves. Due to the HIPPA law, many patients feel safe and entrust the health care professionals and staff to disclose...
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...How might advances in technology and medicine enable consumers to make healthy or unhealthy choices? Technology has come along and took the health care area by surprise and created more jobs and more opportunity for advancement and placement. With all the new apps that are now being down loaded on our smart phones and smart appliances is one of the major ways that consumers are taking their health for granted many of use think that the internet has all the answer but in reality when it comes to health care no one can actually give correct information when it comes to your health is a doctors. They have app for everything. Food Allergies, IBD or Crohns, Cancer and Arthritis Many people really believe what the Google search options says it all cancer or some people don’t take their symptoms seriously. Managing your diagnosed health problem, or learning more about your medical challenges may be more effective with the quick and easy access through your iPhone, Android, Blackberry, iPad or other smart phone or tablet can cause confusion and be very misleading. The health care information that Google provides is quick and easy and but the risk of all your private information leak to the internet but every time something is input you run the risk of letting anyone have full access of your health information. The privacy of personal health information is a hot-button issue around the globe. Most people think HIPAA, the Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act, protects...
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...Carson Cummings Lab Assignment for May 16, 2015 1. HIPAA – Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act was set into to place to ensure that all doctors, hospitals, health care providers and researcher keep classified patients information private. The HIPAA was designed to protect the consumer. The Healthcare Information and Management Systems Society annual survey gave percentages of log sources. Firewall and Application Logs, servers, intrusion detection and network devices each accounting for over 60%. In addition the Storage area network survey notes a 15-20% increase of log data being collect every year due new regulations, increased log sources and inclusion of application logs. All of data that is collected from the logs is used to detect and prevent unauthorized access and insider abuse, to ensure regulatory compliance and for IT Troubleshooting and network operations. HIPAA requires audit controls, breach notifications, account management reviews, accounting of disclosures and information system activity reviews that drive the necessary logging and audits for corporations to stay in compliance. There are many challenges in terms of the volume of data or systems, lack of integrations, access, functionality, definition, data elements, correlation and data mapping. While there is still opportunities for improvement the field of data being collected is growing and HIPAA is a regulation that can address the barriers that are present. Being that...
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...HSM310 Course Project In this research paper you are to select a country other than the United States and survey the health care system of that country, identifying and discussing its key features. As part of this project, you’ll research your chosen country’s health status and health care environment, its policies and practices. Due Week 2: The name of the country you’ve chosen as the topic of your project is submitted to the drop box. (See additional instructions under the Week 2 Assignment tab) Due Week 5: An outline of the information and topics to be covered in your paper is due to the dropbox by the end of the week. This assignment is to follow a formal outline format. For a template of a formal outline review the example provided in the Course Project tab or visit: http://www.crlsresearchguide.org/worksheets/outline%20worksheet.htm this is the one I am going now Due Week 7: The completed research paper is due by the end of Week 7 and requires at least three sources beyond the course text and should be 6-8 pages in length. I will need this one in about two weeks. I will be paying for this one later The length of this paper is to be 6-10 pages; bibliography and text citation is required (APA Style). You are required to have references from our course textbook incorporated into your paper (in–text citations/works cited page) and at least three sources beyond the course texts. Have your paper include an introduction, main body and conclusion. For additional information...
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...More than any other matter, the question of issues stirs among the battle of vaccines. Since the 1980’s, the quantity of vaccinations that children most receive has doubled, and in that same time autism diagnoses have tripled. Studies have shown that some children have suffered from both autism like developmental disorders and intestinal symptoms that include inflammation, pain and bloating. It has been reported kids started showing signs of autism days after getting the MMR vaccine. With this said, cases established a link between vaccines and autism implying that exposure to the measles virus could be a causal factor to children’s autism. This has alarmed parents to begin to question whether they should immunize their children or not. There are many people who feel that the immunizations do more harm than good. These same people believe that the diseases for which vaccinations are given are not something that they have to worry about. They believe that these issues have been gone for so long that there would be no chance of them coming back in full force. Next, Vaccinations have also long been the subject of various ethical controversies. The main ethical debates related to vaccine regulation, developmental and the usage of research and testing along with parents to be forced upon mandates of governmental laws for school attendance and enrollment. Many argue this comes into their right of religious and philosophical viewpoints with arising conflicts all around. For instance...
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...During the late seventeenth century, political pamphlets were distributed throughout Ireland to promote the ideas of various intellectuals and laymen. Many were pensive; others, satirical. However, many of these pamphlets were neglected and discarded. Anglo-Irish satirist, political pamphleteer, and priest Jonathan Swift takes advantage of the overlooked pamphlets by crafting an absurd, “Modest Proposal.” Swift does this to illustrate the dire situation the Irish people. Swift effectively displays satire by ensuring that the mockery is evident and exposes and mocks the plight of the Irish. In “A Modest Proposal” by Jonathan Swift, Swift substantiates his display of satire by employing irony, sarcasm, and appeals to ethos, logos, and pathos. Jonathan Swift uses rhetorical techniques to effectively convey satire in his work of literature. For example, Swift uses sarcasm to ridicule the wealthy elites of Ireland; he writes that smaller babies should be granted to “landowners, who, as they have already devoured most of the parents …” This characterizes the wealthy landlords (who were mostly Anglo-Saxon Protestants) as powerful and unfair people who care less about the well-being of Ireland’s poor population. Moreover, Swift mocks the underprivileged in Ireland in a more direct manner. Jonathan Swift exposes the poor conditions of the Irish working class, describing, “the vast number of poor people, who are aged, diseased, or maimed …” In addition, Jonathan Swift uses irony to further...
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...Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act Changing Lives Heather Cuthbert COM 102 June 22, 2014 CollegeAmerica Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act Changing Lives The acronym HIPAA stands for the Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act. HIPAA was enacted by congress August 21, 1996 and signed by President Bill Clinton the same year. It had required the Secretary of Health and Human Services (HSS) to propose standards protecting the privacy of individually identifiable health information within a year by August 21, 1997 (Summary of the HIPAA Privacy Rule, n.d.). The overall purpose of HIPAA is to improve the portability and continuity of health insurance coverage in group and individual markets. HIPAA has changed lives in many ways for patients, doctors and medical offices. As a patient it has helped to make them feel more secure with not only their health insurance, but also their personal information. Doctors have had to adjust their offices in many ways in order to comply with HIPAA. Medical offices have had to make changes in how they perform everyday tasks, including the medical offices use of electronic records (Summary of the HIPAA Privacy Rule, n.d.). Effect on Patients HIPAA has made a great impact on the privacy of patient’s personal information. As patient’s it is important to know our rights. Patient’s now have a specific place to file a complaint and there is recourse if a medical practice violates the patient’s...
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...JSBMHA and HIPAA Case Study Jsbmha and Hipaa Case Study How does HIPAA serve to protect patient rights? HIPAA protects any individual’s past their present and future information whether it be physical, mental or any other condition that affects that person. It also protects anything that identifies the individual involved, that would their name, address, birth date and Social Security number. Nothing should be discussed about any individual that an agency is helping. It should not be discussed with anyone who is not directly involved with the case even if that person works for the agency. If they are not involved then it should not be discussed. What areas of the JSBMHA did HIPAA compliance impact? HIPAA has a great impact on patients rights, all areas of the JSBMHA were affected by these two individuals. They affected the patients, and put the agency in an awkward position. They affected the agency, the grandmother could make others aware about what happened and this could affect the agency negatively. People who are involved with the agency could be made to feel uncomfortable about giving them any information. It would mean that information at the JSBMHA is not secure, the trust has been violated. What actions should the JSBMHA director take about the HIPAA violation? Explain your answers in detail. I feel that both individuals should be suspended, this is a serious violation. The have put the agency in a very bad situation and have lost the trust of the...
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...Gwendolyn Bradley Hsm/230 2/22/14 Marcella Dowdell The impact of HIPAA on the delivery of human services! I have been a medical assistant for 15 years and HIPAA is a regulation/law that I have had to read over and over again. HIPAA stands for Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act, this act was passed in 1996 two year after that I became a medical assistant. HIPAA requires the United States health and human services to issue rules protecting the privacy of medical information. This information can be found on the Health and Human Service website. www.hhs.gov The HIPAA privacy rules were issued by the HHS to cover a number of types of companies and can affect human service organizations as health care providers, business associates or employers. The purpose of the rational of this act is to prevent any human service organization covered by the rule from sharing personal medical information without removing all details that could be used to identify the person . For example, a doctor's office that put a patient's name and medical history up on its website would be in violation of the rule or if a nurse is having a conversation with a co- worker about a patient and she shares all the patients personal information. The companies covered include any organization or person that shares medical information electronically for purposes such as authorizing benefits or medical referrals. This can include health insurance plans, health...
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...The Step’s Within the HIPAA Laws Page 1 The Step’s Within the HIPAA Laws Shannon Michael HCS/230 10/20/2014 Ann Maleta The Step’s Within the HIPAA Laws Page 2 Introduction The Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act of 1996, which is known as HIPAA. The Federal legislation created this national standard to help protect the privacy of patients’ and there medical information. It was put in place to ensure greater accountability and to simplify the administrative function with the health care industry. Its purpose is to provider better healthcare continuity for the patients. There are several steps to the Privacy Rule and Compliance I will share a few with you. There must be Someone in Charge With the Privacy Rule someone needs to be assigned the responsibility to implement the rule. This person’s job is to get all the other steps in a line to implement the guild line that is done. For a small practice the doctor or office manager can take care of this duty. It the long run it will start out as a full-time job for a few weeks only and part-time job thereafter. The Duties of the Privacy Officer The privacy officer in place has a lot of things to do and to keep in place. First of all they have to track all of the steps that it takes to comply with the HIPAA Rule. This would be things like keeping files locked up in the file whether it is the cabinets or the door to the room locked. This keeps the records out of reach to others...
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