There are many administrative issues that can arise in the health care field; one that not only can affect the patient but also their privacy is HIPPA. The Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act (HIPPA) was made into a law on August 21, 1996 (HIPPA overview, p1). The law is steered toward improving the efficiency and effectiveness of the health care system by standardizing how to exchange data for administrative and financial transactions, while protecting the security and confidentiality of that information. While HIPPA was placed into effect to help patients and their confidentially, there are many issues that can arise. One important issue understands who is affected and its impact on the population. Also what arguments or facts are used to support the proposed solution, and what ethical and legal issues reported for the administrative issue. Understanding the managerial responsibilities related to administrative issues is also very important. Identifying solutions and how they can assess the issues at hand can be very beneficial as well.
` One factor to understand is who the issues of HIPPA effects, and what issues can arise because of these issues. There are many ethical issues that can arise from HIPPA, which can have a great effect on patients and their privacy. HIPPA allows and in many cases requires that confidentiality be kept, while patients can give written permission for their information to be shared with a medical organization or single physician. Health practitioners are required by law to reveal a patient’s health condition if it can harm others such as infectious disease. There are many exceptions to HIPPA privacy in which it can benefit a patient such as a physician blowing the whistle on child abuse or elderly abuse. Health care professionals can become conflicted between their duty to protect a patient’s records, and the duty