Why Privacy Is Important
When you think of going to the hospital or doctor's office to get checked up, the last thing on your mind is what could possibly go wrong with your personal health information. Because of this, there are steps put in place that have the sole purpose to protect you and your information from outsiders and accidents that could possibly put your health information at risk. This is called the Privacy and Security Rule and it's priority is keeping patients and other's health information safe on paper or electronically. These rules protect any information that relates to the past, present, or future physical or mental health of a patient, any plan of healthcare or payments, and any information that could possibly identify an individual.
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"The Security Rule sets rules for how your health information must be kept secure with administrative, technical, and physical safeguards" (HealthIT.gov). Some safeguards include not allowing employees to share certain passwords with other employees in case they are not authorized to access certain information, making sure rooms with major computer systems or important information are locked at all times, and ensuring that only specific passwords allow certain individuals access to patient …show more content…
It protects by regulating the circumstances in which medical offices may use and disclose protected health information. It also gives the patient rights with respect to their own protected health information by allowing them to examine their health information, obtain a copy of their health information if requested, and to even request corrections to their health information if they feel it is wrong. But along with benefits there are also negatives. All these safeguards and guidelines put in place make employees have to jump through more hoops when accessing patient records which can also become time consuming. There are also a lot of electronically access data for patients and that can be hacked if not properly kept. And finally, simple mistakes can always happen, for example, an employee could forget to shut down their computer and someone could come across a patients information. Lots of little things can always happen but that doesn't make the Privacy and Security rule any less important to the protection of our health
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"The Security Rule sets rules for how your health information must be kept secure with administrative, technical, and physical safeguards" (HealthIT.gov). Some safeguards include not allowing employees to share certain passwords with other employees in case they are not authorized to access certain information, making sure rooms with major computer systems or important information are locked at all times, and ensuring that only specific passwords allow certain individuals access to patient …show more content…
It protects by regulating the circumstances in which medical offices may use and disclose protected health information. It also gives the patient rights with respect to their own protected health information by allowing them to examine their health information, obtain a copy of their health information if requested, and to even request corrections to their health information if they feel it is wrong. But along with benefits there are also negatives. All these safeguards and guidelines put in place make employees have to jump through more hoops when accessing patient records which can also become time consuming. There are also a lot of electronically access data for patients and that can be hacked if not properly kept. And finally, simple mistakes can always happen, for example, an employee could forget to shut down their computer and someone could come across a patients information. Lots of little things can always happen but that doesn't make the Privacy and Security rule any less important to the protection of our health