...HSM Law Profile Paper Shamekia Smith HSM230 Rachel Smith HSM Law Profile Paper HIPAA LEGAL SUMMARY The use of Information technology now allows human service organizations to more efficiently keep track of high priority information on clients, costs, and regulations. Years ago this information was kept by hand in ledgers. Nowadays client numbers, costs, and regulations have increased astronomically. As such information technology is the only way to keep track. There are a plethora of IT solutions for human service organizations. Out of the box solutions typically contain applications that record physician orders and keep track of claims and medical record information. Modern day regulation sets are complex and the need to keep track of these is extremely important. A good example of a large and complex regulation set is the Health Insurance Portability and Accountability act (HIPAA) which was put into law in 1996 by president, Bill Clinton. HIPAA has multiple facets. However the most important is that it sets rules on how to properly communicate medical data. Individuals, groups, or organizations that need to transfer medical data must do so according to HIPAA rules. As such administrators of health service organizations as well as IT professionals must understand the rules (Information Technology Association of America, 2004). The two most important components of HIPAA are simplification and privacy. Simplification...
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...HSM 230 HSM Law Profile Paper Axia College – University of Phoenix Your Name:…………… HIPAA LAW PROFILE At present, the human service industry is undergoing fundamental changes due to the rapid implementation of information technology solutions. These changes are due to, the growing challenges of regulatory burdens, to reduce company costs, and increase in patient care or clients. Today, most businesses use information technology solutions that include programs such as, computerized order entry for physicians, electronic claims processing, and electronic medical records. The need for this new technology in the human service sector is tremendous. In order to be successful, all human service providers are subject to a regulatory framework, such as the Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act (HIPAA) which was signed on 21st of August, 1996 by the U.S President Bill Clinton. In very basic terms, HIPAA has two primary components to which hospitals, health plans, and healthcare. Anyone who transmits health information electronically must be in full compliance with the HIPPA Law. Consequently, healthcare providers and IT solutions providers are responsible for understanding HIPPA rules and regulations (Information Technology Association of America, 2004). "Clearinghouses," and healthcare providers must conform: Administrative simplification, which calls for use of the same computer language industry-wide; Privacy protection, which requires healthcare providers...
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... June 19, 2011 HSM Law Profile Paper HSM Law Profile Paper As a Human Service worker, one has to always be aware and up-to-date with the laws, regulations, and the rights of the people you are serving and your rights as a worker as well. One of those laws is the Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act is one that in the Human Service field, you should always have follow out with. The HIPAA Law was passed in 1996 by congress the protect the privacy and health information of patients in hospitals, clinics, and many other Human service organizations. Along with the HIPAA, the Privacy Rule is enforced, in which the disclosure of protected health information is enforced as well. The major responsibility for the Privacy act is to ensure that the individuals’ health information is properly protected while allowing the information to be passed on as needed to provide he or she the best care for their overall well being. In many Human Service organizations, you will be run into cases or patient that are in your care that you will have a little more empathy or maybe care a little more than you should and would want to help. Whether it be going on your own and finding resources, or maybe discussing it with a fellow coworker. This is when you should remember the Privacy Act. Not only it is illegal, but as a Human Service worker, you are violating the your ethical laws as a Human Service worker. As a worker, you have to...
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...5 Assignment Law Profile Paper To Buy This material Click below link http://www.uoptutors.com/HSM-230/HSM-230-Week-5-Assignment-Law-Profile-Paper Select a current or proposed law (NOT DISCUSSED IN CLASS) that impacts the delivery of the human service field you have chosen for the ethical agency being developed and analyze it. DO NOT USE HIPAA or the Affordable Care Act as those are discussed in depth in class. This paper analyzes a current law that will impact the ethical agency being developed. This law should also be integrated into the final paper as one of the outside sources that impact the plans for the agency. Ensure that the law is one that directly impacts the agency you are developing, however DO NOT DISCUSS THE AGENCY IN DEPTH. This assignment is to look at AN ACTUAL OR PROPOSED LAW (not a website that summarizes the law but the actual proposed bill or the law itself). Read the full bill/law details. Then look at all of the specific elements/criteria within the law and look at what the pros and cons are of the law, as detailed in the bullets below and the grading rubric below. Write a 1,200 word minimum paper in APA format (Writing Style Handbook) that answers all of the following questions. Use the provided grading rubric as a guide in completing the paper: • What is the law? • What peer-reviewed UoP Library Database resources are available to learn about the implications of this law? • What is the purpose or rationale of the law? • How will...
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... Criminology incorporates various disciplines such as psychology, history, law, sociology, anthropology, psychiatry and has sub-categories including victimology (studying victims), penology (reviewing prisons), psychological analysis (profiling of crime scenes and perpetrators), etc. An economic profile is a basic overview of the economy in a certain state, country, or city. An economic profile should always include the expenditure or consumption of money in that area. An economic profile combines narrative information with selective business and financial data to provide an overview of the economic landscape of an industry, business sector, city, region or nation. Companies use economic profiles to assess new investment opportunities and evaluate the desirability of an area for relocation or business expansion. In government, these reports provide valuable intelligence and inform economic policy. Writing an economic profile requires knowing your audience and what it expects to learn from the report, as well as attention to the basics of good professional writing, including concise sentences that rely on active voice and minimize the use of specialized jargon. The term “student profile” is used in several different senses in the education community. In all cases, a student profile provides information about a student, but the information can be presented and used in different ways. Student profiles can include data submitted by a...
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...criminal profile is based is Psychological Autopsies, issues stemming from psychologist who are not well trained in this area when trying to determine the cause of death in a client. Anonymous (2013) states that, if different psychologist were to be given the same information involving a suicide case, would the outcome of their diagnosis be the same? (para. 5). How can this question be answered? If these psychologist form and present different opinions using the same information, then there would not be any validity to the psychologist’s opinions. According to research, there will always be conflicting outcomes between psychologists when it comes to any conclusions as to how a person met their demise. Psychologist are in the profession to serve the public and not mislead their clients. They are bound by ethics to make sure that the information that is generated and put out to the public is valid. The Second Issue Related to the Validity of the Information/Research on Which the Criminal Profiling is based The second issue related to the validity of the information/research on which the criminal profile is based Bartol (2009 pg. 79) is Profiling Procedures that are used when gathering information on a particular set of people who commit horrendous crimes. Bartol (2009) states that because of their “overlapping nature” it seems that there is a need for more profiling research on behalf of forensic psychologist, because there are problems with law enforcement...
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...Post-Conviction DNA Policy in Criminal Investigations In most legal systems around the world, the courts have convicted many innocent people due to their legal procedure and laws. Wrongful conviction refers to a miscarriage of justice by convicting or punishing individuals for crimes they did not commit. Similarly, the application of the term may be useful in another direction; civil cases and errors of impunity. Many criminal justice systems have set ways to quash or overturn, a wrongful conviction. However, it is difficult for the criminal justice systems to overturn the decisions of wrongful convictions. In certain instances, overturning a wrongful conviction may take several years, or until the courts have already convicted the innocent person or the person has died. This paper examines the causes of wrongful convictions and focuses on the DNA exoneration policy. Causes of Wrongful Convictions The first clinic to work on non-DNA exonerations was the Michigan Innocence Clinic. It revealed particular circumstances that people have always deemed as the wrongful conviction. The scenarios reveal that the criminal justice needs amendments and change how the Michigan Innocence clinic should deal with the system’s trends. The following are among the causes of wrongful convictions: Eyewitness Misidentification: sometimes the eyewitnesses could misidentify a person and cause wrongful conviction on the...
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...eyewitnesses of the crime, physical evidence or a valid confession from a suspect (Bartol & Bartol, 2012). Criminal profiling has proven to be a valuable tool involving criminal investigations and is used by forensic psychologists. There are factors that become involved when compiling a profile such as liabilities and limitations related to personality traits that are identifiable, particular behavior exhibited, and characteristics specific to the offender and the criminal act (Bartol & Bartol, 2012). There is doubt regarding the use of criminal profiling within the law enforcement community as this type of investigating may not present the reliability this approach may offer and it would be reflected in the validity. Criminal profiling is in many cases unreliable so professionals tend to choose analytical criminal investigating to help alleviate errors involving demographics, behaviors or cognitive issues relating to the suspect (Bartol & Bartol, 2012). Errors could involve bias against a particular culture, race or geographical area which would impair the outcome of an investigation. Another issue of importance is relating to the evidence found at a scene and being able to provide an accurate profile related to evidence and not guesses or assumptions. In the case study involving Thomas Lee Dillon and the five murders he committed the authorities had a feeling they had the right man but did not have the correct evidence so they could not make an arrest. In the case of the two males...
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...Fleming, the author, argues that with most college students posting their whole life on social medias, lawmakers and college administration are questioning how to protect their students’ privacies. Fleming brings up that making a profile on Myspace or Facebook is free and easy to join, as the user only needs an email address. However, online identities and friendships have disadvantages when it comes to others searching for a profile. Fleming says that job recruiters, school administrators, law enforcement officers and sexual predators can easily find anyone’s profile. These profiles include; the user’s pictures, personal descriptions and information about relationship statuses, where they attend school, and hometown. Befriending someone on these websites is easy, because all you have to do is search the name and click on the profile. Furthermore, there are privacy settings that do allow users to restrict who can and cannot see their profile, however these settings are hardly used by the user. Fleming states that a report showed that 30 percent of students had accepted a friend request from a...
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...In high profile cases, prosecutors are often their own worst enemies. The pressure to succeed too often causes prosecutors in the spotlight to make strategic and ethical decisions that can backfire against their case. Several recent high-profile cases illustrate this problem: (1) the Michael Jackson child molestation trial, (2) the Jesse James Hollywood murder prosecution, and (3) the clemency proceedings of murderer Michael Morales. This essay is not intended to embarrass any particular prosecutor. Indeed, prosecutors in high-profile cases face a particularly difficult task. Each decision they make is put under a microscope by the media and its legal commentators.2 Defense lawyers are quick to claim prosecutorial misconduct, 3 knowing that ∗ Professor of Law, William M. Rains Fellow & Director, Center for Ethical Advocacy, Loyola Law School, Los Angeles. The author wishes to express her gratitude to her fabulous research assistants, Shawn Domzalski and Jeffrey Jensen, for their help with this Essay. As always, their assistance was invaluable. Thank you also to the staff and editors of the Loyola Law School Law Review for their fine editorial assistance. Finally, thank you to Sammy and Marci Maniker-Leiter for their daily inspiration. 1. MODEL CODE OF PROF’L RESPONSIBILITY EC 1–2 (1981). 2. For the ethical responsibilities of prosecutors in evaluating these cases, see Erwin Chemerinsky & Laurie Levenson, The Ethics of Being a Commentator III, 50 MERCER L. REV. 737 (1999); Erwin...
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...Abstract: As a super star of crime documentary, TV play series and Hollywood thriller, offender profiling has already become the most famous work of law enforcement in the world. Offender profiling is a frequently-used method in criminal psychology, but there are also some people who worry about the abusing of offender profiling by the police or crews(eg. Arrest someone only because he and the general criminal has one thing in common, or even just base on the color of the skin). This essay will focus on a series of queries and common questions about offender profiling. More information on this article will be presented in the introduction. Offender profiling(CP) has also been called criminal profiling, psychological profiling or crime scene...
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...• Describe how you might leverage the strategic capability of IT and the organizational structure to create and maintain high performance teams and a learning organization. With information technologies, there are many, which help law enforcement be successful in their duties one of them is CODIS (Combined DNA Index Program). Because CODIS is a database, system that stores DNA profiles. This database has helped police in all cases, where they have been physical DNA left at the crime scene. They then can use the CODIS system DNA profile to see, if it is a match to any of the DNA within the database. By using the CODIS system, it has helped them solve many cold cases from the past to present. They also can get results quicker, because technicians only need a “minute amount of biological material. Then decades before a similar profile sample would have to be the size of a dime” (police staff, 2003). Crime mapping it aids law enforcement looking, for patterns of criminal incidents that have happened in certain areas like rape, assaults, robberies, etc. This technology has helped technicians and law enforcement pinpoint their next target so that they can make the arrest. This software gives this information in minutes, and it can send other law enforcement this mapping pattern in those located areas. So that they can react promptly and be aware of the situations in minutes after the crime committed. Lastly, the computer aided dispatch system (CAD) helps the 911-dispatch send the...
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...Constitution and protect the constituents. But the question at stake is, how can the number of law enforcers augment to the need of the total populace? Thus, the challenge is posed … How is the making of law enforcers? Criminology major subjects are intended to prepare those whose lives are dedicated in upholding the law and in protection to everyone. The researchers devoted themselves to assess the Successes and Difficulties of their batch enabling them to fulfill for whatever field they may engage either Board Passers or Non-Board Passers. Having so stated, this study focuses about: Academic & Economic Aspects in order to gauge and recommend practical, technical, legal and logistics programs and practices applicable hereto subject to the approval of the School Administration that will assure positive impact to the concerned stakeholders. Hence, this study entitled Successes and Difficulties of EARIST Cavite Campus Bachelor of Science in Criminology Students in Their Major subjects. Setting of the Study Eulogio “Amang” Rodriguez Institute of Science and Technology (EARIST)- Cavite Campus, formerly called EARIST-GASAT (General Alvarez School of Arts and Trades), is a branch school of EARIST in Manila, a government state college. It operates with the funding support from the budgetary allotment of its Mother Institution, EARIST. Established on March 24, 1982, EARIST Cavite Campus started by offering vocational-technical courses with Mr. Rodrigo P. Hipol (Dr. Hipol)...
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... aggravated assault, burglary, motor vehicle theft, and larceny theft. An eighth index, arson, was added to the report in 1979. With these statistics officials can determine the effectiveness of new laws and programs as well as the effectiveness of staff and procedural changes. This data affects numerous issues such as budget decisions, integration of new laws, and staffing decisions. The public also looks to this report for information pertaining to fluctuation in crime. Others, such as criminologists, municipal planners, legislators, media, and sociologists use the statistics for planning and research. Although these reports are never going to be a 100% accurate due to the amount of underreported crime throughout the United States, they generally give society a good sense of what is taking place in different areas. Underreporting of crime happens because law officials do not know that the crimes have taken place. The lack of personal engagement and respect of law enforcement as a whole plays a major role in crimes not getting reported. Another reason for crimes not getting reported are people prioritizing what is a serious crime and what is not. Some more reasons for underreporting are fear of law enforcement, lack of faith in the police, hostility towards law...
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...National DNA Index System (NDIS) for law enforcement purposes (FBI, 2018). Subsequently, the FBI has optimized NDIS by implementing the Combined DNA Index System (CODIS), which combines forensic science and computer technology to link genetic suspect profiles to serial violent crimes (FBI, 2018). Furthermore, analysts are required to examine DNA samples within NDIS against crime scene evidence, samples taken from convicted offenders and arrestees (National Institute of Justice, 2010). Therefore, CODIS facilitates a biological investigative connection between federal, state, and local law enforcement agencies in the search of a potential suspect, which can span multiple states (National Institute of Justice, 2010). Since we have identified the basis for NDIS and CODIS within the law enforcement community, let us further analyze these systems....
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