| You Decide | Activity | Assignment Responses | Part I | From the Chief Compliance Officer (CCO) perspective on HIPAA, contemplate the three basic areas which HIT professionals must be most concerned with are: (1) Privacy Rules
(2) Security Rules, and
(3) Standardized transaction code sets | Write a paragraph on each of the 3 critical areas of HIPAA for a training session of your staff. Explain what they are, why they are important and how they impact staff duties and the organization. | HIPAA Rules (1) Privacy Rules: HIPAA Privacy Rules involves federal protection of individually identifiable health information and guarantees patient rights and prevents healthcare fraud and abuse. This is important to prevent identity theft (especially in the fraudulent use of health insurance) by reducing fraudulent use of patients social security numbers/birthdates, protecting a patient diagnosis and treatment and any other personal patient information (address, home/work phone numbers, place of work). This will impact staff and organization by what information can be accessed (ROI or Release of Information) by what staff and what information the organization/hospital may release to third parties whether it is another physician/hospital or insurance company. (2) Security Rules: HIPAA manadated series of rules which safeguards the integrity of administrative, physical, and technical information (EPHI- Electronic Protected Health Information).Will allow covered entities to adopt policies to improve quality of patient care. These are important especially in the use of EHR (Electronic Health Record). Will impact staff duties by what information can be accessed by what staff members and the organization will need to maintain correct ROI and may need to purchase additional computer software to control data management. (3) Standardized transaction code sets rules: These