Confidentiality and HIPAA Heather Lyday HCIS/245 November 8, 2015 Kathleen Healy-Collier Patient Confidentiality and HIPAA The Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act or HIPAA, is a law that is meant to; improve portability and continuity of health insurance coverage combat waste, fraud, and abuse in health insurance and healthcare delivery, promote use of medical savings accounts, improve access to long-term care, and simplify administration of health insurance. The HIPAA privacy
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educational institutions. FERPA only comes into play if the records are released to someone outside of the health center. (http://www.nuemd.com/blog/hipaa-and-ferpa-six-golden-rules-of-privacy-law) FERPA does not cover records of teachers, workers or professors of the educational institution. Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act (HIPAA) was enacted by the United States Congress in 1996 to among other things promote and encourage maintenance of health Insurance among citizens.(
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Rule provides for the confidentiality, integrity, and availability of ePHI | Enforcement Rule | The Enforcement Rule established the procedures for investigations and hearings into noncompliance. | To set the penalties to be levied as a result of HIPAA violations.
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When a health care worker violates laws, such as the HIPAA privacy rule, they may be liable for criminal penalties. Violating HIPAA regulations can result in criminal penalties such as fines of up to $250,000 or imprisonment for up to ten years depending on severity of the wrongful conduct. (U.S. Department of Health & Human Services, 2015) An example of criminal charges that were levied as a result of health care law violations is evident in the case of Dr. Huping Zhou of UCLA School of Medicine
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is challenging. Sometimes a form seems fine at first glance, but a professional should be able to look at any medical form and spot the errors. This week we were assigned to critique and redesign a standard HIPAA form, correcting mistakes using the principals of forms design. The HIPAA form needs to be user friendly above all else, patients will be filling out this form so special considerations need to be made to make the
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Analysis and Comparison of GLBA and HIPAA 1. Which US government agency acts as the legal enforcement entity for businesses and organizations involved in commerce? The Federal Trade Commission. 2. Which US government agency acts as the legal enforcement entity regarding HIPPA compliance and HIPPA violations? Office of Civil Rights(OCR) under the Department of Health and Human Services 3. List three (3) similarities between GLBA and HIPAA. 1. Safeguards Rules to protect customer
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for all the actions of the medical personnel and office staff? It’s all based on opinion but, mine is a mix of yes and no. I feel that between the HIPAA law, fraud and abuse, and negligence it could be a mixture of responsibilities. There are many concerns pertaining to the HIPAA law. HIPAA is short for “The Health Insurance Portability Act”. The HIPAA law was put in place federally for the patient’s privacy and confidentiality. An issue related from the behavior of staff would be, for example, so
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significance of HIPAA? Give an example of a HIPAA violation, and explain why the example is in violation of HIPAA laws. HIPAA is biggest laws in the America. HIPAA includes information privacy, IT for guarding all medical information. The Laws have been increasing gradually in recent years the reason is the cyber attacks. HIPAA privacy rule initiates to protect the patient’s private data. HIPAA security rule is dedicated to protect of cyber protected medical data set standard for a patient. HIPAA enforcement
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Administrative ethics regarding HIPAA HIPPA Rule HIPP is a privacy rule that is set up to protect a patient’s person health information. This personal health information coverage gives a patient a number of rights on how their medical records are kept and who has the right to view them. The HIPAA privacy rule has a number of safeguards for the covered entitles to ensure that confidentiality and integrity of any electronic health information. The HIPAA rule is only applies to covered entities
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Sheri, you have an interesting point about HIPAA being a piece of a healthcare employee’s ethical code. Working in mental health, the HIPAA legislation has both positive and negative ethical effects. Firstly, it is difficult to imagine mental health patients coming in for treatment if they did not feel information privacy was nearly guaranteed. HIPAA does provide particularly useful benefits in that it provides patients a level of comfort discussing health related concerns that they might not otherwise
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