...comprehensive summary of the contents of the article; it allows readers to survey the contents of an article quickly, and like a title, it enables abstracting and information services to index and retrieve articles” (p. 12). . HIPAA Privacy – Safe Guarding and Securing Patient Data It has been said time and time again that life was much less complicated at the turn of the 20th Century and this saying could not be truer when it comes to medicine. At the turn of the 1900’s there was a personal bond between the provider and the patient, between the provider and the community, and between citizens in the community. In small towns across the nation there was less of a sense of privacy & individualism and more emphasis on helping your neighbor; because of this medical privacy was not a concern. You cannot help your neighbor if you are not aware of their issues. If we fast forward to the year 2010 times have changed significantly; with the advent of technology the American culture has changed. Personal information is no longer just stored on paper in the doctor’s office, patient information is stored in vast computer banks and sold like stocks and bonds on Wall Street; all of a sudden personal privacy is no longer private. Therefore the federal government had to step in and put a halt to this travesty of invasion of privacy. One of the best medical laws that were ever written is the Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act of 1996 (HIPAA) Privacy and Security Rules...
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...Spread across the State of Florida, Nurse on Call, Inc (NOC), has become one of the larger home health agencies in this area; positively impacting patient care through the efficiency of its processes, systems, and staff. Initiating its business in 2003, NOC has always attempted to stay ahead of the competition with its creative and innovative technological advances. Currently, the company utilizes a homecare software product called Axxess. This is a web-based program that allows clinicians and physicians to provide safe and efficient care; while providing continuity. NOC has reduced cost and remained in compliance with its accreditation governing body through the use of this electronic records system. As with any health care organization, HIPAA is a huge factor in protecting all individuals. According to the US Department of Health & Human Services, “A major goal of the Security Rule is to protect the privacy of individuals’ health information while allowing covered entities to adopt new technologies to improve the quality and efficiency of patient care” (“Summary,”(n.d). Through the implementation of Axxess, NOC has proven to uphold security of protected information. “Doctors using EHRs may find it easier or faster to track your lab results and share progress with you. If your doctors’ systems can share information, one doctor can see test results from another doctor, so the test doesn’t always have to be repeated” (“Privacy,” n.d). “EHR systems are backed up like...
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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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...Nunez-Walker HCS/335 09/08/2014 Claudia Unrein Administrative Ethics Paper A patient’s electronic protected health information is an important issue when it comes to privacy for the patients and physicians. “Communicating with patients using mobile devices such as Blackberrys, iPhones, iPads, or Android phones is fast growing trend among healthcare providers” (Barrett, 2011) . In the world today physicians and patients are using mobile devices an order to communicate with each other more and more. This of course raises distresses when it comes to the security of protected health information. This article discusses the issue on security by the use of electronic transfer of protected health information between health care providers and patients and also how those issues may cross HIPAA Security Rule. The Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act (HIPAA) was establish in 1996, in order to protect the privacy and security of patient’s health information. “The Security Standards for the Protection of Electronic Protected Health Information (the Security Rule) establish a national set of security standards for protecting certain health information that is held or transferred in electronic form” (U.S Department of Health & Human Services, n.d). There are many reasons why the use of mobile devices triggers the HIPAA Security Rule. Unauthorized disclosure of protect health information is very much at risk because mobile devices can only store in two ways: within the phone...
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...Various Communication Kelly Downs HCS/320 October 31, 2011 Sandra Anderson Various Communication Channels This presentation of various communication channels will consist of three variable structures of communication. Hospital communication, Nursing home communication, and Security communication are these structures. The channels of communication for a hospital from the admission process, handling the health of patient care, to discharging a patient to their home or rehabilitation center has a focal point of verbal communication added with electronic medical records. The communication channels of a nursing home are displayed in this paper as a chain of command point of view. The security aspect of communication has advantages in written and verbal styles. Allowing the combinations of these channels to intertwine within health care in most organizations and their offices, shows the room for improvement in their written and verbal communication skills. Hospital Communication During the admission process of a patient, there is a communication channel between the hospitalist and the primary care physician, PCP. The patient has to give consent to contact their primary care physician. There is a difference in patient care between hospitals and ambulatory care appointments. The hospitalist has a team of medical staff to work with while the PCP has a few nurses that will assist the physician during a patient’s office visit. As part of this medical team, one to the first questions...
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...Electronics Health Records The majority of Americans believe electronic medical records have the potential to improve U.S. health care and that the benefits outweigh privacy risks. Among those who have electronic medical records, half say they are very confident that the physicians and other health-care providers have a complete and accurate picture of their medical history, compared with 27% of those who do not have electronic records (Journal). What is Wrong with Paper Records? There are many issues with paper records such as, only one person can have the chart at a time, keeping track of chart location is difficult, delays in retrieving charts are common and aggravating, and hand writing is often illegible. Also, charts may be disorganized and information is hard to find. Some information does not get into the chart for many days. There are not enough tabs for all the different types of forms. Many trees are sacrificed to print encounter forms and health summaries for each visit, which causes charts to get very fat. Nevertheless, metal tabs break, and the charts fall apart (Juchem, 2009). What About Privacy and Security of Electronic Records? Computer security is no less important in EHR than it was before. Only users that are authorized should be given access to EHR and the level of their access must be consistent. If their password is in the bottom of the keyboard because they cannot remember it probably should not be given one in the first place. However...
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...00 DOI: 10.1037/a0016853 Electronic Medical Records: Confidentiality Issues in the Time of HIPAA Margaret M. Richards Cleveland Clinic Children’s Hospital With the application of the Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act (HIPAA) in the medical community, new issues arise for psychologists in keeping documented records of patient visits. Confidentiality limits have broadened, making use of the electronic medical record more complicated for the psychologist practitioner, particularly when serving as part of a multidisciplinary team. As the electronic medical record (EMR) has become more prevalent in multiple settings, various researchers have examined the effectiveness of this record keeping system, with a focus on improving patient outcomes. The risks and benefits of implementing an EMR will be discussed, focusing on specific considerations for psychologists in regard to confidentiality and interdisciplinary collaboration. Keywords: Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act (HIPAA), electronic medical record (EMR), confidentiality How much information is appropriate to place in an electronic medical record (EMR), especially when that record is accessible to professionals throughout an organization (i.e., a hospital setting)? This question has become an important topic of discussion and research as EMRs become more prevalent in larger institutions, such as academic medical centers and community mental health centers. With the implementation...
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...University of Phoenix Material Health Care Information Systems Terms Define the following terms. Your definitions must be in your own words; do not copy them from the textbook. After you have defined each term in your own words, describe in 40 to 60 words the health care setting in which each term would be applied. Utilize a minimum of two research sources to support your claims—one from the University Library and the other from the textbook. Be sure to cite your sources in the References section consistent with APA guidelines. |Term |Definition |How Used in Healthcare | |Health Insurance Portability and | | According to "U.s Department Of Health And| |Accountability Act (HIPAA) |According to "What Does Hippa Stand For" |Human Services" (n.d.), the Office for | | |(2012), HIPPA stands for the Health |Civil Rights enforces the HIPAA Privacy | | |Insurance Portability and Accountability |Rule, which protects the privacy of | | |Act, enacted by the US Congress in in 1996.|individually identifiable health | | | |information; the HIPAA Security Rule, which| | ...
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...Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act (HIPPA) Privacy Rule Abstract As one of the regulations of the Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act (HIPPA) of 1996, Public Law 104-191; the HIPPA Privacy Rule sets “the standards for privacy of individually identifiable health information” (Speers, Wilcox, & Brown 2004). Established by the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) in 2002, this set of national standards deals with the use and disclosure of health information, in addition to the principles guiding patients’ rights over their health information; which includes the right to review, obtain a copy of their health records, and request corrections. The ultimate goal of the Privacy Rule is to protect the confidentiality of patients’ health information while enabling the use of this information for appropriate health care related purposes. Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act (HIPPA) Privacy Rule The Privacy Rule contains standards that outline terms for the electronic exchange, use, and privacy protection of patients’ personally identifiable medical information; also referred to as protected health information (PHI). These standards apply to the following covered entities: health clearinghouses, health plans, and health providers who transmit health information in electronic form; (Hoffman & Podgurski, 2007). Health clearinghouses are businesses that are utilized to process PHI into...
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...Computer-Based Patient Records Electronic Medical Records(EMR) have been implemented at the hospital that I work for and have been in place through our hospital based system since 2006 and implemented throughout the facility in 2007. Some of the benefits of these records are the convenience of having the patient's information available for you at all times, records are not lost or unavailable at times when they are really needed such as the case with paper charts. The EMR also contains pertinent information such as allergies, a past medical history, and a medication history just to name a few more benefits that are available for those directly involved in the patient's care to view. According to the U. S. Department of Health and Human Services, “an electronic record of health-related information on an individual that can be created, gathered, managed, and consulted by authorized clinicians and staff within one health organization” (Agency for Health Care Research, 2013). There are challenges that include the possibility of security breaches and continued advancement of technology in the health care system itself. The solutions for these challenges include accountability for our own actions which include logging off of your computer before leaving your work station, never sharing your passwords, and never allowing a patient’s medical record to be in plain view for people that are not involved in the patient’s care, and keeping an open mind regarding staying current with...
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...Administrative Ethics Jeff Andrews HCS/335 March 18, 2012 Gail Garren, MSN, RN, CPHQ Administrative Ethics In administrative health care today, there are constant occurrences of ethical issues in the everyday behaviors. As health care administrators, we have responsibilities to ourselves, the organization, the patients, and our employees. The increasing information technology, which is the future, can be an ethical concern to administrators of the confidentiality of information on patients. Confidential information is private or privileged information, and should be that luxury. In health care, the confidential information that is stored into an information system, such as a patient health record, will need the ethical awareness, knowledge, and decision making skills of managing confidential information is the administrator’s responsibility. Managing confidential records will require the education of all staff within the facility. This would be the education on the Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Accountability Act (HIPAA) and the Health Information Technology for Economic and Clinical Health (HITECH) Act. HIPAA and HITECH laws will be mentioned in this report as well as, an article from a local news station on a breach of patient confidential records, the issue and the impact is had on the population, the facts that are used to support the article and its solution, the ethical and legal issues for the administrative issue, the managerial responsibilities...
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...II: Telemedicine Across the globe, the methodology of considerable scale technology in the health care field has begun. As fast as satellite communication can transmit, the terms telehealth and telemedicine are being distributed across the world. The bandwidth of telemedicine has been hard pressed in the connecting of people as we treat illness and promote health care. Telemedicine in itself is innovative as it continues to grow there are precautions and risks that will arise. In this paper, the privacy risks of telemedicine, security safeguards that could be put into place to reduce or eliminate those risk, along with strategies for evaluating the effectiveness of telemedicine. Privacy Risks and Security Safeguards As progression in novelty began to be more prominent, the matter in which health care operates begin to change. Health information exchanges (HIEs) allow a patient’s information to effortlessly be shared. With providers being allowed to bring their own devices, health care workers are permitted to get, record or offer information from anyplace at any time. Providers now have the ability to treat patients from a distance, sometimes from the comforts of their own home. However, despite the obvious progressive improvements, concerns arise. As a health care organization, grows securing protected health information (PHI) and following the rules and laws within the Health insurance portability and Accountability Act (HIPAA) become more difficult. Not every device...
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... The Johns Hopkins Hospital instituted the Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act of 1996 (HIPAA) on April 14, 2003. This legislation changed the way many medical facilities handled a patient’s protected health information (PHI) in a variety of ways. This paper will review the subject of the way the Johns Hopkins Hospital handles PHI within its organization. The Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act completely changed the way a medical facility handles a patient’s health record. Before HIPAA was put in place, a patient’s rights would be different depending on the state he or she resided in. HIPAA has standardized the way PHI is handled and is the same regardless of the state of residence. If a facility uses PHI in a manner not in line with the HIPAA regulations, the facility can receive many different sanctions depending on the extent of the misuse of information. HIPAA was created in 1996, but before then only about half of the United States had regulations that allowed a patient to get copies or even see his or her own medical records. Many states have initiated legislation that gives additional security to protect a patient’s medical record; all states must follow the rules of HIPAA even with the additional security measures. Protected health information (PHI) is any information that provides the ability for others outside the organization to identify...
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...Leading & managing individuals JJT TASK 1 TABLE OF CONTENTS Summary Report: ¬ Introduction ¬ SectionA1. Environmental Considerations and Recommendations ¬ SectionA2. Ethical Leadership Considerations and Recommendations ¬ SectionA3. Organizational Viability and Recommendations ¬ SectionA4. Legal Considerations and Recommendations ¬ Section B. Sources Introduction: Corporate Social Responsibility (CSR) is the commitment of business to contribute to sustainable economic development, working with employees, their families, the local community and society at large to improve their quality of life. Companies that embrace corporate social responsibility look after people and the environment along with good financial results. These companies do not wait until the government imposes particular rule or laws. They look ahead and determine for themselves which environmental and social measures they are able or willing to take. They choose those measures which fit in with their own vision and business strategy. But they also take account of what the outside world asks of them. They developed an identity that is based on finding a responsible balance between people ‘social well-being’, planet ‘ecological quality’and profit ’economic prosperity’(Epstein, 2008). Although every company must consider for itself how best to incorporate social responsibility into its business model, it may be instructive to look at one company’s efforts to incorporate...
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...Electronic Health Record Functionality Standards or Certification HSM 330 DeVry University October 1, 2015 In describing how I would incorporate my findings into the HER selection and decision making process, I would analysis the criteria that must be met to qualify for functionality or certification. The basic functionality supports the belief that if a provider were armed with information about the functional capabilities of software, they would be better equipped to compare systems, resulting in making decisions about acquiring systems appropriate for their practice needs. The CCHIT, which is the Certification Commission for Healthcare Information Technology, expects that the process of achieving goals of quality, safety, and cost effectiveness will accelerate initiatives toward the electronic health record. Electronic Health Record Functionality standards are or Certification is a ranking system for electronic health records systems. To qualify for HER certification, vendors had to meet more than 300 criteria devised by the Commission’s physicians, medical societies, vendors, and payer. Most of the requirements concerned HER functionality, security, and reliability. CCHIT, Certification Commission for Healthcare Information Technology, will ass new requirements for certification each year. Healthcare level H7, which is the application protocol for Electronic Data Exchange in healthcare environments, it is considered a gold standard benefit in the healthcare...
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