...If I would to guess the most common HIPAA violation is conversation regarding patient amongst co-workers. The discussion concerning a patient with certain condition, disease, or procedural case because it is interesting or peculiar with another co-worker are common. Discussion often occur in public places such as in the elevator, the hallway, or the cafeteria where patient’s family members, friends, or another patient are able overhear and identify the individual. It is human nature to gossip and be curious about an unknown subject. However, the discussion presents a HIPAA violation since he or she is identifying the patient through narrative. Even though workers attempt to keep patient confidentiality by omitting the patient’s name or pointing...
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...What it is about HIPAA that make a health care worker pause and/or cringe when it is mention? It usually because he or she is about to commit or committed a HIPAA violation. Health insurance portability and Accountability Act (HIPAA) of 1996 arise from the Privacy Rule issued by the U.S. Department of Health Human Services. HIPAA set the guidelines for usage, release and protection of individuals’ identifiable health information in any various forms such as electronic, paper or oral. Any HIPAA violation will results in fines, loss of job and possible criminal prosecution. The severity of punishment and ease of committing a HIPAA violations should intensify health care workers every actions. Yet, that is not the case because handling of patient health information on a daily basis have lead many health care worker to become complacent. If I would to guess the most common HIPAA violation is conversation about a...
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...When a health care worker violates laws, such as the HIPAA privacy rule, they may be liable for criminal penalties. Violating HIPAA regulations can result in criminal penalties such as fines of up to $250,000 or imprisonment for up to ten years depending on severity of the wrongful conduct. (U.S. Department of Health & Human Services, 2015) An example of criminal charges that were levied as a result of health care law violations is evident in the case of Dr. Huping Zhou of UCLA School of Medicine, who faced incarceration for unauthorized access of patient medical records. In 2003, Dr. Zhou Huping plead guilty to charges in connection with accessing patient medical records that he did not have authorization to view. Consequently, Dr. Zhou was sentenced to four months of prison time for the HIPPA patient privacy violation. (The Federal Bureau of Investigation, 2010) Another example of a HIPPA breach which resulted in criminal penalties can be ascertained from a news story regarding a nurse in Arkansas who was prosecuted for sharing...
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...Being HIPAA compliant is mandatory for our Healthcare sector. However, there are still many instances of violations on a daily basis that employees, managers and CEOs alike are unaware of. We've collected the top ten most common violations so that you can guard against them. One. Employees illegally accessing patient files Employees accessing patient information without being authorized is a very common HIPAA violation. Reasons may vary from curiosity, to spite, even as a favor for friends or family. Regardless of the reasons, the practice is illegal and can cost you. Employees that use or sell PHI for their own gain can be subject to fines and even prison time. Two. Texting patient information When vital signs or test results...
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...Khishigjargal Enkhtur Emily Cox Homework Assignment #1 7th, September 2017 1. Explain the significance of HIPAA? Give an example of a HIPAA violation, and explain why the example is in violation of HIPAA laws. HIPAA is biggest laws in the America. HIPAA includes information privacy, IT for guarding all medical information. The Laws have been increasing gradually in recent years the reason is the cyber attacks. HIPAA privacy rule initiates to protect the patient’s private data. HIPAA security rule is dedicated to protect of cyber protected medical data set standard for a patient. HIPAA enforcement rule is forms instruction for examinations into HIPAA compliance violations. The main purposes of HIPAA are to provide continue health insurance...
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...How HIPAA Violations Affect the Medical Billing Process HCR/220 October 7, 2012 How HIPAA Violations Affect the Medical Billing Process In this paper we will discuss how HIPAA violations affect the medical billing process and why HIV and AIDS information is more sensitive than other types of health conditions. We will also examine the social, legal, and ethical ramifications of improper information disclosure. In 1996 on August 21, the Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act (HIPAA) was enacted by the Federal Government and signed into law by President Bill Clinton (HIPAA – The Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act, 2011). According to “Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act” (2012), “HIPAA does the following; provides the ability to transfer and continue health insurance coverage for millions of American workers and their families when they change or lose their jobs, reduces health care fraud and abuse, mandates industry-wide standards for health care information on electric billing and other processes, and requires the protection and confidential handling of protected health information” (What is HIPAA?). The main reason HIPAA was enacted was to protect patient’s personal health information regardless of its severity. Their personal health information is just that, theirs! For that reason, among many other, it is very important to know that a patient’s personal health information is not to be shared with any unauthorized...
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...Merav Nissim HCR/220 February 4, 2012 Natalie Cooper How HIPAA Violations Affect the Medical Billing Process Part Two The global HIV/AIDS pandemic is the worst infectious disease crisis to confront the world since the bubonic plaque halved the population of Europe in the five years after its arrival in 1347. To date, 22 million people have died of AIDS worldwide; another 36 million live with HIV/AIDS today (Fhi360.org). HIV/AIDS is a difficult topic to talk about and even more difficult is the confidentiality that is involved. Many people are hesitant to discuss it with anyone bedides their loved ones. One has to ensure that it stays confidential, and anyone who is not supposed to know should be made aware that it is not to be shared with anyone else. According to the HIPAA Privacy Rule, it is supposed to protect peoples’ private health information. According to CDC.gov, the Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act of 1996 (HIPAA) attempts to address some of the barriers to healthcare coverage and related job mobility indepediments facing people with HIV as well as other vulnerable populations. There are certain guidelines that aim to ensure that the confidentiality of people living with HIV/AIDS is not compromised when collecting and storing information about the disease. It provides principles, definitions and technical recommendations to maintain confidentiality, privacy and security when working with HIV-related information. Ensuring this...
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...Chapter 2 Notes * Administrative laws establish procedures for issuing and removing peoples driver’s licenses, for registering a vehicle, and for a securing a title, which proves ownership of the motor vehicle. * To drive a vehicle you are required to follow your state’s motor vehicle laws. * Passing a vision test is required to get a license. * States can suspend, or temporarily take away licenses for a specified period of time. * Licenses are usually suspended for 30 to 90 days and always fewer than 365 days. * States also have the power to revoke, or take licenses away. You must then apply for another drivers license. * Point system assigns each driver points for violations. States decide when to suspend or revoke your drivers license based on this. * If a driver who has been suspended continues to get pints, their license can be revoked. * Statues issue a certificate of title when you buy a motor vehicle which proves that you legally own the vehicle. * When purchasing a vehicle, you must also register your vehicle with the state. * Financial responsibly is another aspect of driving. * The Right of way is the right to proceed first. Never assume you that you have the right of way. * 3 situations when you must yield the right of way: * Yield the right of way to an emergency vehicle that has its sirens on and its lights flashing. * Yield the right of way to people who ae blind and are carrying a white cane or...
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...How to Park Anywhere in Ottawa for Less than a Buck a Day Tired of ridiculous parking fees? Need to stretch you’re budget further? Can’t find an ideal parking spot? Read on. There’s a little known loophole in Ottawa Municipal Bylaws. Here is what the legislation says: (from website) (insert translation: In Ontario, drivers can renew their license either annually or bi-annually, but first must settle any outstanding tickets. Since the city caps the delinquent fine at $400, a driver can theoretically rack up unlimited tickets for no extra cost. Let me explain the loophole. Although it’s true that the city can issue an infinite number of parking tickets, the city defers collection of overdue and outstanding tickets to Service Ontario. As shown above, Service Ontario implements a per delinquent cap set at $400 every two years. Theoretically, a driver can accumulate an unlimited number of parking tickets and only pay the maximum fine. Unlimited tickets for $400 every two years? More like $400 for a two year parking pass. Seriously, you can park in any eligible parking space any time you want for $400 every two years. I call this the Ultimate V.I.P Parking Plan tm. This program obviously excludes: handicap and emergency services parking, plus no-parking and toe-away zones. However, the rest of the city might as well be your own fucking driveway. Let’s look at how much money you’ll save. Below are the accumulated parking fees over two years for the largest parking...
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...9/28/2012 Your Honor, My name is John Smith. I currently work as a Registered Nurse/ Assistant Director of Nursing at Shea Rehab and Health care Center in Whittier city. I received the traffic citation number 88661PP for turning right on the red light. I did pay the full amount of the citation and selected to attend the traffic school. However, I did not receive the letter about taking traffic school which already passed the due date until last Thursday 9/27/2012. The letter with court # 15390, Docket Number 88661PP 1999, the due date on the letter to take traffic school is 07/03/2012. I am writing this letter to explain to your Honor what has happened and seeking the mercy of the Court to extend the date to take the traffic school. During the last couple months, I did wonder many times why the letter never comes and keep waiting until the day I found out the letter underneath my nightstand. I found out that the mail was picked up by my cousin during the time me and my husband were out of town and somehow the mail was dropped underneath the nightstand. Since this is my first time receiving the ticket, I am not familiar with the time frame receiving the traffic letter as well as the time frame to take traffic school to clear my driving record. I did call the court at (213) 763 – 1539 but I couldn’t get hold of any clerk to ask question. During this time, many significant events happened which distracted me. The significant events as follows: I go back...
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...To the honorable judge, In 2/11/2013, 7:49pm, my friend drove me to the Rosemead Bank of America to let me withdraw some money from the ATM to pay my rent, we were in a very urgent situation because I had to pay the money before 8pm otherwise the landlord will kick me out. It was dark that night and the sign was not very clear. just wanted me to get the money ASAP so he parked very close to the ATM, which we did not notice was a handicapped parking zone at all. It took me less than a minute to withdraw the money because it was night and no one was using the ATM. I saw an officer giving him a ticket for the parking violation when I finish withdrawing the money, and half of the car’s body was out of the zone when the officer was giving the ticket, because saw me finish withdrawing and was about to leave with me before the officer came. and I really did not mean to violate the law, we should not park in the handicapped zone even for a second. However, it's the first time ever for him to do that, and he had always followed the law. I actually should pay this penalty if it really occurs, because all of his behaviors were for helping me. Words failed me to express how guilty I feel for, and I just beg you forgive him this only one time. Please give him a chance. Thank you so much for your time to read this statement....
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...Summary Statistics: a. Violations and Fine Amount by County: County | FINE AMOUNT | VIOLATIONS | Bronx | 8% | 8% | Kings | 4% | 4% | NY County | 74% | 73% | Queens | 6% | 7% | Richmond | 8% | 9% | b. Violations and Fine Amount by day of the Week: Weekday | FINE AMOUNT | VIOLATIONS | 1 | 1% | 1% | 2 | 18% | 18% | 3 | 22% | 22% | 4 | 22% | 22% | 5 | 18% | 18% | 6 | 15% | 15% | 7 | 4% | 4% | c. Violations by Violation Type: Violation Type | Percentage | 14 | 13% | 46 | 11% | 45 | 10% | 69 | 9% | 34 | 8% | 16 | 6% | 20 | 5% | 38 | 5% | 19 | 5% | 21 | 4% | 42 | 4% | 40 | 3% | 78 | 2% | 37 | 2% | 47 | 2% | 48 | 2% | 71 | 2% | 82 | 1% | 17 | 1% | 51 | 1% | 70 | 1% | 18 | 1% | Note: The Violation types which are of less than one percentage are not shown. Violation Intensity Analysis: a. Hot Spots in terms of type of road segment: The term Hot spot is self-explanatory which means a place with significant activity or danger. Here in this Study it refers to the intensity of Violations over the road segment. The higher the intensity of violations, the more we can dig into the reasons for the violations. The preliminary objective of the Study is identify the hot spots in terms of Road segment types. The intensity is calculated in terms of number of violations over the road segments length. The density will give us an insight into the particular features of the road segment that might have been an indirect...
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...Innovation ——Underground Auto-parking Building Every day, there are many students who go to UMAC by riding their motorbikes. They may face a very big problem that there is lack of space for them to park their motorbikes. Since they always arrive to UMAC and it is almost time when classes are going to start, they might have to park their motorbikes in some places that are illegal for parking, or they just park their motorbikes behind the other motorbikes in a hurry that will block them when the others want to leave, that is the reason why you always see people have to move the other‘s motorbikes before they ride their own motorbikes to leave, and it is quite a hard task for some girls to move the others' heavy motorbikes. In order to prevent the situation that the messy parking habits bother the others and lead to penalties for parking illegally, we suggest building a new underground motorbikes park which is with high-technology in order to solve the problem and also make the most use of space. It will help our students to park their motorbikes in a suitable space automatically. The new motorbike park is time-saving, space-saving and convenient to the students. Having this new motorbike park, students can feel relieved as they do not need to worry about finding available parking places, do not need to remember the places they have once parked their motorbikes and their motorbikes can be stored safely. You may think the new motorbike park is just the same traditional one...
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... September 2014 A Car Monitoring System for Self Recording Traffic Violations Ahmed M. Elmahalawy Computer Science and Engineering Department, Faculty of Electronics Engineering, Minufiya University Menouf, 32952, El-Minufiya, Egypt Email: ahmed.elmahalawy@el-eng.menofia.edu.eg; a_elmhalaway@hotmail.com which ought to be considered as sufficiently independent. These two major sub-systems are: 1) the transaction subsystem and 2) the enforcement subsystem. [2] Another example is video technology applications for traffic management and safety. This technology offers both tangible and intangible benefits. Video technology requires a substantial up- front investment costs for the purchase and installation of equipment and training of staff. Due to the complexity of video systems and the rapid pace of change related to this technology, agencies may overlook some applications while using resources to implement less valuable applications. [3] Over the last few years there has been a growing interest in Intelligent Speed Adaptation (ISA), to solve the problem of exceeding the speed limits. ISA has the potential to significantly reduce the incidence and severity of road trauma in many countries all over the world. [4], [5] The remainder of this paper is organized as follows: Section 2 gives a background of previous work in this field. Overview of Self Recording Traffic Violations system is presented in Section 3. In Section 4, the proposed System's...
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...Citation Contest (Initial Review) Citation #908902164 I recently received a parking citation in the mail for parking in a red zone on 03-10-14, at 09:17 P.M. that I would like to contest. I was brought aware of the parking citation through the mail only per 40202 (D) VC. The parking attendant never put the parking citation on the Vehicle and never made contact with me at all advising me of a parking violation so I never knew about the issuing of the citation until I received a notice in the mail. On 03-10-14 I was working as driver for the company Uber in the city of Santa Monica. Uber is a ridesharing company that allows people to request for a ride somewhere like a taxi. The drivers use their personal vehicles to pick up and transport the clients wherever they need to go. That evening I was using my personal vehicle (6AND311 Nissan Altima) in the performance of my duty for the Uber company. On 03-10-14, at 9:14:39 P.M., I received a ride request from a client. I was a couple blocks away from the location of pick up (near 500 Santa Monica Bl). It is my common practice when I receive a ride request to pull to the side of the road and map out the route to get to the pick up location, which I did. Uber gives you a phone with a map gps system that gives you an icon of where the client is. You are supposed to drive to that exact location because that is where the client is supposed to be. So after I mapped out the route to the gps icon I drove to the location. I was...
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