HIPAA Law of 1996 Timothy Glover HCA210 Introduction to Health Care Martha Schlagel 02/26/2012 HIPAA Law of 1996 HIPAA was enacted on April 26, 1996 to establish a set of national standards for the protection of certain health information. Standards for Privacy of Individually Identifiable Health Information (a.k.a. the Privacy Rule). HIPAA addresses the use and disclosure of individual health information, a.k.a. Protected Health Information. HIPAA establishes standards for privacy rights
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the passing of HIPAA, or Health Information Portability and Accountability Act. HIPAA was designed to not only protect patients and their families, but also to cut down on cost and fraud within the medical field. If you have been to the doctor and signed any forms before you were seen, one of them was most definitely a HIPAA release form. HIPAA was created in 1996 as part of the Social Security Act. Since 1996, Congress has added many amendments to the Act, but the basic premise has remained the same
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HIPAA Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act of 1996 T he Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act, commonly referred to as HIPAA, became a federal law in 1996. The act contains insurance reform provisions and introduces the establishment of a fraud and abuse control program when rendering medical care to Medicare patients. In 2000, regulations were established to protect the privacy of personal health information maintained by health care providers, health plans, hospitals
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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
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Michael Gaul Security and Privacy According to Robin Rudowitz (September 2006), “before Hurricane Katrina struck in August 2005, New Orleans had a largely poor and African American population with one of the nation’s highest insurance rates, and many relied on the Charity Hospital system for care”. The safety net of New Orleans’s health care system was a distraught. A lot of people were left with no access to care for year after the Hurricane Katrina. On August 2005, the Hurricane
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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
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A1. Sentinel Event On the evening of September 14, 2011 a sentinel event occurred at Nightingale Hospital. According to Joint Commission, a sentinel event is characterized as an unexpected occurrence involving death or serious injury mother proceeded physical), or the risk thereof (http:www.jointcommission.org). A three year old child was accompanied by her mother for an outpatient procedure scheduled for September 1, 20111. The mother proceeded to register the child for the procedure and was provided
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administrator of a hospital in hurricane prone areas is to train the staff for the future hurricane emergencies. The staff has already been trained on ways to avoid accidental disclosure of patient information. The Health Information Portability and Accountability Act (HIPPA) requires that employees complete yearly education to maintain competency on patient privacy issues. The hospital is prepared for the next natural disaster and information users, such as managers, directors, and
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with the set standards from HIPAA Security and HITECH Rules, Heart-Healthy Insurance is devoted to ensuring the confidentiality, integrity, and availability of all electronic protected health information (ePHI) it creates, receives, maintains, and/or transmits. To provide for the appropriate utilization, and oversight of Heart-Healthy Insurance’s efforts toward compliance of the HIPAA security regulations, Heart-Healthy Insurance has assigned its Information Security Analyst team responsible for facilitating
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communication plan to be used during and following the disruption will be explained. Lastly steps on how the companies operations will be restored after the disruption will be discussed. Business Continuity Plan Red Circle is a non-for-profit health insurance company located in Minnesota. Red Circle serves members in commercial and government lines of business. The company has three office campuses located in Eagan, Minnesota. These locations are within 1 mile of each other. The company also has a
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