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
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supporting functions that are critical in health care. One of the major job requirements is the professional’s responsibility for the patients’ legal record. The American Health Information Management Association and the Health Information Portability and Accountability Act (HIPAA) set guidelines for ensuring the quality, integrity, privacy, and security of a patient’s Protected Health Information. Health Information Management (HIM) professionals must have an ethical character, and be responsible for
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The journal article that I chose is about a case of privacy and confidentiality of health care employees in New Zealand and not the United States. Its relevancy though is just as important here as it was in New Zealand. New Zealand has a Privacy Act similar to the United States’ HIPAA. The article “Privacy, employees and human resources: a case report” (Mair, 2011) documents the release of an employee’s medical records to his employer, a New Zealand hospital and the resulting issues. Although
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management department for an outpatient clinic. Your manager is revising the policy and procedural manuals for the department and is particularly interested in confirming that policies are in compliance with state law and Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act (HIPAA) Privacy Law. Your manager asked you to review several policies and to review state code as they apply to HIPAA Law. Your manager left the following two policies on your desk for review: Release of Information: Shadow
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of a patient which would then give doctors instant access to a patient’s medical records had won the approval of the Food and Drug Administration back on October 12, 2004. The approval was immediately denounced by HIPAA (Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act) advocates, who rightfully believed that it could endanger patient privacy and thus be the stepping stone towards a major disaster. In this paper I’ll examine how the fundamental concept of a right to patient privacy could possibly
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Data Security and Privacy Act Data security & privacy has varies of roles and responsibilities to prevent financial crimes. Financial crimes can include telemarketing scams, investment or pension fraud, credit card fraud, and insurance fraud. However, it is the company decision on how much personal protection is needed to secure its customers financial investments. Moreover as who is suppose to make this decision for financial protection falls under corporate security. These decisions are
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Administrative Ethics Paper When creating effective strategy and rewards compensation programs one must ensure that the policy established executes the plan well. The EEO or Equal Employment Opportunity and Affirmative Action laws give authorization for Human Resources representative to hire the best-qualified staff by selecting the finest candidates for interviews, and make a job offer without discriminating against any candidates. Affirmative Action assists in elevating discrimination among
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The Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act of 1996 (HIPAA) was a landmark Act through its eliminating much of the protection that previously existed with respect to patient information held by a treating clinician. The Privacy Rule, a component of HIPAA, allows the treating clinician to disclose otherwise protected health information without any authorization or permission by the patient, in 12 specific instances: to employers who request information concerning a work-related illness
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The history of HIPAA began August 21, 1996. Congress enacted the Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act (HIPAA). It required the HHS or (Health and Human Services) recommend standards protecting the privacy of individuals health information by August 21, 1997. With HIPPA coming into law in 1996 it came with a promise and sweeping changes in the management and operation of security for healthcare organizations. The main purpose of HIPAA was to mandate healthcare information and enable
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Maintaining confidentiality is becoming more difficult. The need to protect patient confidentiality is evident in legal restrictions imposed by state laws and the federal Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act of 1996 (HIPPA) and was recently amended under the Health Information Technology for Economic and Clinical Health Act.(politifact, 2011). Physicians have always had a duty to keep their patients confidence. This means that a physician or any administrative person may not disclose any
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