I had no idea that there were so many “levels” of HIPAA and patient rights. All the different rules and regulations for the special topics, the depth of the Patient Safety Rule, the involvement of the OCR. Even though there was an overwhelming amount of information to research through, a lot of it seemed somewhat familiar. This paper discusses some points I found that I actually learned about. What is HIPAA? HIPAA is the Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act...
6 Pages
2582 Words
Communication is a key skill that we learn at a very young age. It involves the exchange of information between two or more parties. It helps us express our feelings and emotions and enhances comprehension about a person’s overall health state. Although communication is used by everyone, it is crucial to health care field. Doctor’s, nurses’, surgeons, and other health care professionals need to communicate important patient information in order to enhance quality of care. With that being said, they...
3 Pages
1258 Words
The healthcare business is continually developing to meet federal prerequisites for electronic PHI upkeep, transmission, and capacity. The present healthcare organizations are picking HIPAA-compliant partners that diminish the risk of PHI breaches, decrease network unpredictability, counterbalance capital expenses, and upgrade network nimbleness to convey better patient care and healthcare service conveyance at a lower cost. As these healthcare organizations coordinate their data and business structures in the virtual space, they have to constantly put resources into hardware-improved security technologies and...
1 Page
560 Words
According to the Health insurance Probability and Accountability Act (HIPAA) privacy rule, there are two methods for De-identification of Protected Health Information (PHI). Safe Harbor method is one of the De-identification methods. The HIPAA privacy rule set the limits to which extent we can use the PHI and disclosure of the same. The HIPAA Privacy Rule protects most “ individually identifiable health information” held or transmitted by a covered entity or its business associate, in any form or medium, whether...
1 Page
654 Words
Executive Summary A recent study estimates that 19% percent of US citizens claim they currently use a wearable fitness tracker, with the same percentage saying they currently use a mobile health app. Combining present use with the percentages of Americans saying they have used each of these devices in the past, about one in three Americans report at some point having worn a fitness tracker such as a Fitbit or smartwatch (34%) or having tracked their health statistics on a...
4 Pages
1711 Words
Get a unique paper that meets your instructions
800+ verified writers
can handle your paper.
Place order
Patients share critical health related information with caregivers and Health organizations. They do so with a belief that their data would be kept confidential. Any breach of data confidentiality can lead to critical patient information being leaked to unwanted agencies and can cause severe trust deficit between health agencies and patients. To protect the sensitive data about the patient's health information, the Health and Human Services of the US department (HHS) enacted a HIPPA privacy rule in 1996. This federal...
3 Pages
1169 Words
It’s hard to imagine a time in our health care that we weren’t protected. A time when everything was handwritten and had to be filed. This was a time in history when HER (electronic health records) and the protection of HIPAA (Health Insurance Potability and Accountability) wasn’t even thought of. I’m talking about back in the 1950’s and 1960’s when electronic health records would have boggled doctors or health care professional minds. Even the thought of a law such as...
2 Pages
1082 Words
The experts in the wellbeing segment have a gigantic undertaking of ensuring the wellbeing information record is constantly protected. For instance, exchanges that exist between a specialist and a patient ought to be classified to a high degree and kept safely without getting to an outsider's hand, it is profoundly conceivable that the patient wants to get approaches a landline telephone as opposed to utilizing a cell phone. Shut relatives with similar family names are not permitted to speak to...
1 Page
572 Words
INTRODUCTION In my report I will be discussing HIPAA , why it’s important and what it means and how it protects patient information. Here's a little background on HIPAA, The Congress as the Kennedy-Kassebaum Bill had introduced and passed HIPAA August 21, 1996. There have been a lot of add ons to the HIPAA policies over the last 20 years. The latest one was in April 2003 and April 2005. HIPAA has four rules and they are HIPAA privacy rules...
1 Page
439 Words
What Is HIPAA Compliance? This is the standard that Covered Entities or Business Associates follow to secure demographic data, medical histories, test or laboratory results, and related Protected Health Information (PHI). Organizations that manage PHI must devise in-depth physical, process, and network security measures and implement them to ensure HIPAA Compliance. Let’s cover the legal terms first. Covered Entities are doctors, nurses, or insurance companies who offer treatment, use, and have access to PHI in the healthcare sector. Business Associates...
3 Pages
1569 Words
