United States Congress enacted the Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act (HIPAA) into law. The purpose of the law was to focus on providing greater access to health care for Americans and to address administrative activities regarding claims submissions to insurance carriers (American Medical Association, 2011). Along with streamlining the administrative process, HIPAA also guarantees patient privacy and has strict guidelines regarding how organizations can disclose a patient’s protected
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HCS/335 November 14, 2011 William Bross Administrative Ethics The Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act also known by the acronym HIPAA was enacted in 1996 (Highmark, 2011). The intention of the new set of laws was to improve the efficiency and effectiveness of the health care system of the United States (Highmark, 2011). HIPAA affected everyone with any involvement in the health care field; although those affected the most were those involved through the administrative process
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patient privacy is not violated has to be the number one priority. Advances in technology and media can pose great triumphs for healthcare further down the road, as long as the appropriate measures are taken to ensure that HIPAA standards are being met at all times while using these outlets. Understanding HIPAA’s Guidelines for Securing Patient Information HIPAA’s Privacy Rule sets the guidelines for the use and disclosure of protected health information (HHS, n.d). This Privacy Rule protects
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opening ourselves up to potential violations of privacy. It is imperative that everyone consider the new security issues faced when approaching data storage, transmission and retrieval from various electronic devices. HIPAA’s agenda was to establish privacy, security, and electronic standards for health care providers that handle different types of patient information. The accountability part of the act includes the penalties for breaches in medical privacy, disclosures of patient records by e-mail,
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Portability Accountability Act. HIPAA is an acronym for Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act. HIPAA is a law, which protects the privacy of individually identifiable health information. The HIPAA has rules and standards that help keep a patient‘s information private and safe. What reliable resources are available to learn about the implications of this law? Many reliable resources are available to help one learn more about this law. One can go to the HIPAA or the Human services website
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HIPAA and Social Media Lolita Stanton January 27, 2013 National Louis University HCL 430 Social media has taking the world by storm. Face book, My Space, Twitter, and many more are connecting people of the world to one another. In the article “Social Media and HIPAA Compliance”, the author takes a look at the rules that govern HIPAA and social media. HIPAA is an abbreviation for the Health Insurance Portability and
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perspective on HIPAA, contemplate the three basic areas which HIT professionals must be most concerned with are: (1) Privacy Rules (2) Security Rules, and (3) Standardized transaction code sets Write a paragraph on each of the 3 critical areas of HIPAA for a training session of your staff. Explain what they are, why they are important and how they impact staff duties and the organization. HIPAA Rules (1) Privacy Rules: The HIPAA (Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act) Privacy Rule
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The Involvement of HIPAA Privacy and HIV and AIDS Faye Loiseau HCR/220 November 13, 2011 The Involvement of HIPAA Privacy and HIV and AIDS HIV and AIDS are the most serious and deadly disease among today’s society. This disease is worldwide and has not specific targets. The first case of AIDS was discovered in the United States approximate 20 years ago, and has increased to an estimated of 24 million people becoming affected today. AIDS has killed more than 25 million people since 1981
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Portability and Accountability Act (HIPAA). Today an organization must take specific measures to protect an individual’s private health information. As technology advances with the coming future, protection as become increasing difficult, covering all the basis and guidelines brought forth by HIPAA laws. A major concern of the federal government is an intended or unintended breach of HIPAA regulations. Along with HIPAA, came the creation of the Privacy Rule. The Privacy Rule according to Mir, (2011), “restricts
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Ethics Paper Kerri Love HCS/335 October 21, 2014 Jennifer Hilkert Administrative Ethics Paper Patient privacy is a very important aspect to all businesses within the health care field. Whether businesses like it or not, there are strict guidelines that everyone has to follow regarding patient privacy. According to the Department of Health and Human Services (2014), “the HIPAA Security Rule outlines national standards designed to protect individuals’ electronic protected health information that
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