...Information Technology Acts BIS/220 Rassoul Allizadeh Information Technology Acts What were the advances in information technology that resulted in new ethical issues necessitating the creation of each act? The necessities for creating the fair credit reporting act of 1970, was to control the redistribution of one’s consumer information. As information technology grows, the necessities of many others things grow as well. As we progress over the years more and more people seem to fall under the cracks of identity theft. Not only are people smarter, but can get away with things too. There are specific reasons to why we adhere to rules and acts that protect us individuals and rights. On the other hand, some of the reasons why it was a necessity to create the act was due to the fact that many people were being incorrectly reported to the credit reporting agencies. Another major reason was due to consumers applying for certain advantages and got denied, consumers did not know why or what was in their file that concluded rejection. The fair credit reporting act of 1970 allowed the consumer to request and or allow the bank or credit agency to give the consumer a copy of their credit report. With that said, if the consumer did find any incorrect information in the report, then the consumer had the opportunity to dispute any incorrect information recorded. Following, is the creation of Health Insurance Portability and accountability Act (1996). This act was created to protect...
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...Health Care Information Technology Benefits and Problems By Bryan Chadwick Health Care Information Technology, what is it? How does it benefit us? What are some of the problems with it? These are questions that need to be answered. Health Care IT the communications between information science, computer science and health care. According to Forbes we as a nation spent $2.8 trillion on healthcare in 2012 (Pearl, 2013), that is around 18% of the U.S gross Domestic Product (Pearl, 2013). Of that $2.8 trillion spent on HealthCare around $34.5 billion is spent on its Information Technology. (Manos, 2013) We know the definition of health care IT; but what is it really? It is the computer software and systems that each clinic, hospital, and insurance company uses. This allows us to upload patient records easier, transfer data between hospitals. Allows your doctor to pull up your medical history and treat you with much faster response time. Also one main benefit, it allows patients to be able to access health records, treatment information, test results and billing from their computer, smartphone or tablet. With technology giving us the power at our figure tips to access data from anywhere; Healthcare Information Technology can have its benefits and problems. We have listed some benefits with the Information Technology. However what are some of the issues with it. How secure is this information? Is this information HIPPA compliant? According to the Department of Health and Human...
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...records, and this has become a huge part of communication with the patient and physician. Recording information on paper has been the method of life for years and it is slowly being replaced by using computer technology and for years it has been slowly moving ahead. The EMR system is at the heart of any automated health information systems by consumers. If they were not in existence then other up to date technologies such as decision support systems, cannot be effectively integrated into the custom clinical workflow. There are many advantages in EMR but the main advantage of Electronic Medical Record software completion is better efficiency, using an EMR system saves the effort and time so that patient’s health information is always readily available, and it helps with monitoring of the patients from a distance, and furthermore performance of electronic health records system saves office room that is naturally necessary to store the paper, none-electronic medical records. As the use of electronic medical records becomes widespread so does the need to search and provide effective information. There are a lot of benefits to gain by using the electronic medical records system, your information is secured from all the public and the rights of HIPPA secures the safety of any of your medical information being discussed. HIPPA has been a big part of keeping all patient’s medical information confidential, by law this is the best known method that health care providers can ever give the...
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...HIPPA PII Protection IFSM 201 Due 04 Oct 2015 Everyone has heard about HIPPA, which is the common acronym for the Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act. This federal regulation has three priorities that focus on are protecting the confidentiality, integrity, and availability (CIA) of patient electronic protected health information (EPHI), guarding against reasonable possible expectable threats to the security or integrity of said EPHI, and protecting EPHI against unauthorized disclosure (National Institute of Standards and Technology, 2008) . The protection of the CIA of EPHI is important because our patients rely on this information’s accuracy and availability in emergency situations for use by medical professionals, while the confidentiality is important to ensure this personal information does not fall into the wrong hands and to ensure the patient’s civil rights are not violated. There have been many recent high level HIPPA violations recently. Some of the most damaging breaches that released the most protected personal information (PII) occurred at the Department of Veterans Affairs. In 2013 one of the largest known EPHI/PII breaches at the VA was discovered through the conduct of a thorough investigation and reported by Steven Marco of HIPAAOne.com that “found there were an astounding 14,215 violations that affected 101,018 veterans and 551 VA employees at 167 facilities since 2010. These violations included using patient information...
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...Critical Regulatory Issue In this day and age technology has become the way of life. People have access to their whole lives online. Consumers can shop, pay bills, and apply for credit with a simple click of a button. Some healthcare providers now have patient portals, where patients can access their medical records, review and pay their bills online and even schedule their own appointments. This is not only convenient but also makes sense with today’s technology. A patient portal is a Web-based access point that allows doctors and patients to communicate and share health information remotely, supplementing the ongoing management of the patient's care. While portals can't replace an in-office visit, they have many benefits: They are "designed to boost patient's involvement in their care," as portals encourage viewing test results and health documentation and can facilitate an ongoing doctor-patient dialogue. Additionally, portals can reduce costly paperwork by serving as online billing and payment centers (Healthcare IT) but with all of this technology and access to private information, how are consumers protected? How do they know their records are being kept confidential and not broadcasted online for everyone else to see? Patients and their private health information are protected through the Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act also known as HIPAA. In 1996, the Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act or the HIPAA was endorsed by the U.S. Congress...
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...Hippa Summary Patricia Milligan HCS/320 April 14, 2014 Polly Hansen Hippa Summary The Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act of 1996 also known as HIPPA, protects the patient’s health information whether spoken, written, or electronic. The American Recovery and Reinvestment Act of 2009 provides stimulus funding and invest resources in Health Information Technology for the Economic and Clinical Health Act (HITECH). HITECH provides privacy provisions that build and modify the HIPPA privacy rule. Some new information I learned about the HIPPA act through this tutorial was the final security rule. This rule ensures that all electronic patient health information is protected against threats. Threats cannot be protected 100 percent, because of instances such as break-ins or unauthorized use of information from a health care employee. The best way to ensure compliance is for each member or the workforce to complete training at least once a year. Every employee is required to follow the HIPPA policies and procedures and be aware of their surroundings to help monitor breaches to the system. In conclusion, the changes that will be made to HIPPA privacy rule in the future will also affect how I may use this information in the workforce. My current goal is to do medical transcription from home, and this will require a strong sense of trust and training for the medical facility to stay in compliance. I am sure that with a growing number of stay at home medical personnel...
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...only if it determined that a breach involving patient records had occurred and that it carried a significant risk of financial or reputational harm to patients”. “Which raised concerns from privacy advocates that practices should not have the discretion to determine those matters” (Lubell, Jenifer, HIPPA gets tougher on physicians, February 4, 2013 www.amednews.com/APPS/PBCS.DLL/PERSONALIA?ID=JLUBELL). This issue has had and impact on physicians, “under the new privacy rules doctors must assume the worst case scenario in the event of a possible privacy breach”. “Now any incident involving patient records is assumed to be a breach, unless a practice conducts a risk assessment that proves a low probability that any protected information was compromised the breach must be reported”(Lubell, Jenifer, HIPPA gets tougher on physicians, February 4, 2013 www.amednews.com/APPS/PBCS.DLL/PERSONALIA?ID=JLUBELL). The argument that is being used is that “some of the largest security breaches have involved business associates of plans, doctors, and other professionals”.” An analysis of large data breaches reported to the department of health and human services finds that personal health information may be most at risk when in the hands of a third party business associate hired to perform functions that require access to the patient data” (Dolan, Pamela, Blame for medical data...
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...Administrative Ethics Paper Introduction Advancements in health care technology have made it increasingly difficult for an organization to maintain the safety of patients’ medical records under the Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act of 1996 (HIPPA) Privacy and Security Rules. Even after providing education to health care workers on proper HIPPA practices, there continues to be intended and unintended breaches especially in hospital settings. In 2010, New York-Presbyterian Hospital (NYP) and Columbia University (CU) health care system was under investigation for an accidental release of electronic medical records for 6,800 individuals. The incident impacted the health care industry because it was largest HIPPA settlement to date. At the time, U.S. News and World Reports NYP health care system as number one in the state and number six in the nation. The HIPPA Privacy Rule protects the “privacy of individually identifiable health information”; while the HIPPA Security Rule “sets national standard for the security of electronic protected health information”, and the HIPPA Breach Notification Rule requires business to notify of a “breach of unsecured protected health information” (HHS, 2014). Basically these rules are to protect the privacy of the patients’ health information. It says who can look at and receives information about the individuals. It gives the patients reassurance that their health information is safe and secure. The ethical and legal issues of the article ...
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...Advances in Information Technology Create Ethical Issues that Drive Congressional Acts Ethics refers to what is morally good or bad, the division of right and wrong. The increase in ethical issues rises as information technology advances. What is unethical is not necessarily illegal. Therefore, congress is forced to set guidelines protecting consumer’s privacy, accuracy of information, the ownership and value of such information and who has access to it. The Electronic Funds Transfer Act of 1978 and the Health Information Portability and Protection Act of 2006 are just two examples of these types of acts. Information technology advances in order to keep up with the demands of the modern world. One such way, is the availability to access money from automated tellers and point of sale terminals. Congress implemented the Electronic Funds Transfer Act in 1978 to establish the basic rights, liabilities and responsibilities of consumers who use electronic funds services and financial institutions who offer those services. (FDIC, 2006). This law protects an individual consumer’s privacy by ensuring the financial institution protects the digital data it is storing and that it does not disseminate that information to the wrong individual. The financial institution must ensure it receives and authentic information from the consumer and accurately transfer the information into the computer system. The ETA also identifies error resolution and limits liability for any unauthorized...
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...Health Care Process Craig Brownlee University of Phoenix Health Care Communication Strategies HCS/320 Marina Voroni January 09, 2015 Health Care Process Good Afternoon assembled newsman, media outlets and spokesmen. I would like to start off this news conference with a brief introduction. I am Michael Brownlee, the Communication Director for the Umbrella Corporation. We have called this news conference for the negative news reports concerning the release of Norvopaste. The recent reports concerning the side effects, and the complaints made on certain social media pages have left the company in a negative light. Initially we felt that most of these statements were not based on facts and chose not to justify these. With the increased disruption in our facilities and meeting with our board of directors a new offensive has been organized and implemented. WE will be discussing the points and action plan. With a new advertisement program launched today, we be addressing the persistent questions over the supposed side effects. Through an in-depth survey a suitable spokesman will be identified that the public can make a connection with. Once we have that spokesperson, I believe that we can use this to relieve any fears or questions. We will be putting all issues out into the general public and running a traditional media campaign along the lines. While in the vein of opening all operations, I would suggest that we use a public figure that has a strong trust bond with the...
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...Effective Communication Rebecca Moreland HCS/325 December 17 2012 UOP Effective Communication I currently do not work but, I did previously work for an individual insurance sales agent for Anthem Blue Cross and Blue Shield. I understand that in the healthcare environment, communication is the utmost importance and confidential. There is only certain ways to handle certain cases. There are some things that you are not allowed to discuss in writing and vice versa in verbal communication due to patient confidentiality and HIPPA laws. Communication is always something that you will have to endure. It will always be apart of your lifestyle, both social and professional. I think that there is basics to communication and making sure you have the basics down are the beginning. There are a lot of patients that have different needs and have different beliefs that can hinder communication with a healthcare professional. A person can have a religious belief or a social belief that can hinder their communication to good care. As a healthcare professional, you will see many different types of people and should be able to communicate with them effectively. One, always be concrete about what needs to be communicated. This is by speaking to a person in a way that is to the point and gives clear meaning to the topic. Two, always be respectful about anything is being said. A person needs to know that they are respected to be able to give and receive communication. More advanced...
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...in today’s society of administration in the health field. As technology progresses more and more issues continue to arise. Among the many issues in current administrative ethics the healthcare field faces today the most common issue that I found in my research is the issue of confidentiality and privacy of the patients. Even more today than there has been before keeping patients records private has become more and more difficult. There are different levels of information that can be affected. According to nursingworld.org the administrator protects information that is private, secret or privileged. This means that not all information is medical information about the patient but also information about the payroll or other contact information about the patient and the staff. This also would include information the patient does want their doctor to know about them which would be more privileged information and things they do not want their doctors to share with others. One of the main issues with keeping such information confidential according to the article Administrative Ethics and Confidentiality/Privacy Issues on nursingworld.org is that most often younger people are working in offices that do not respect or have accurate knowledge of the privacy laws such as HIPPA. Hippa is a government list of regulation and rules to abide by in any medical practice put into place to protect the patients. According to hippa-101.com any office using electronic software must have the appropriate...
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...Administrative Ethics Paper Introduction Advancements in health care technology have made it increasingly difficult for an organization to maintain the safety of patients’ medical records under the Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act of 1996 (HIPPA) Privacy and Security Rules. Even after providing education to health care workers on proper HIPPA practices, there continues to be intended and unintended breaches especially in hospital settings. In 2010, New York-Presbyterian Hospital (NYP) and Columbia University (CU) health care system was under investigation for an accidental release of electronic medical records for 6,800 individuals. The incident impacted the health care industry because it was largest HIPPA settlement to date. At the time, U.S. News and World Reports NYP health care system as number one in the state and number six in the nation. The HIPPA Privacy Rule protects the “privacy of individually identifiable health information”; while the HIPPA Security Rule “sets national standard for the security of electronic protected health information”, and the HIPPA Breach Notification Rule requires business to notify of a “breach of unsecured protected health information” (HHS, 2014). Basically these rules are to protect the privacy of the patients’ health information. It says who can look at and receives information about the individuals. It gives the patients reassurance that their health information is safe and secure. The ethical and legal issues of the article ...
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...forms; traditional, electronic, and social media. Communicating and contacting the individuals relatives will be the first step in implementing theses developments. Emails will be sent out to these relatives, phone calls will be made, and trips to the nursing home will take place. Some relatives reside long distances from the facility, making this transition more challenging. One will be making contact with the family members and developing an applicable plan to accommodate to the residents to relocate them to another quality residence. The next step in the transition would be to see if the resident’s relatives have power of attorneys in hand, and they have to sign medical release forms with the legal forms. Assuring that the residents HIPPA rights are...
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...Patterson HIPPA HIPAA The Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act of 1996 (HIPAA) established new standards for the confidentiality, security, and transmissibility of health care information. There are three types of standards created by HIPAA: privacy, security and administrative simplification (e.g., transaction standards). Taken together, these regulations have a major impact on the day-to-day functioning of the nation's hospitals and affect virtually every department of every entity that provides or pays for health care. Researching the different topics available, I have chosen the HIPPA issue. I have chose this because it plays a major part in the health care industry. Nearly every time you hear healthcare the phrase/word HIPPA follows not long after. The Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act of 1996 (HIPAA) established new standards for the confidentiality, security, and transmissibility of health care information. HIPPA is in place to retain the privacy within the healthcare policies. HIPPA 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, and mandates industry-wide standards for health care information on electronic billing and other processes. Working in the healthcare industry allowed me to see that without the HIPPA policy in place medical records and or patient’s medical information. HIPAA...
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