pay the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) $1‚500‚000 to settle potential violations of the Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act of 1996 (HIPAA) Privacy and Security Rules‚ Leon Rodriguez‚ Director of the HHS Office for Civil Rights (OCR)‚ announced today. BCBST has also agreed to a corrective action plan to address gaps in its HIPAA compliance program. The enforcement action is the first resulting from a breach report required by the Health Information Technology for
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Bettyann Pidcoe HCA 210 September 7‚ 2014 Andrea Engle Confidentiality in Electronic Medical Records In the health care industry patient medical records has gradually moved from paper to the computer as electronic medical records (EMR). In past years doctors kept patient health records in file folders in cabinets that took up a great deal of room in the office. The advancements in health care technology have changed the way patients and doctors are communicating and the way patient medical records
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Electronic Health Record (EHR) has a lot of advantages and unfortunately it also has its disadvantages. In the article‚ 5 out of 10 incidents a laptop which contains EHR were stolen. Another incident was a misplaced back up disks. It was also reported that in two incident an employee who have access to the files stole the data by compiling the information with the intent to process fraudulent tax returns and the other used his access to get patient record and use it against the institution. The
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This posting is about a former UCLA Health System employee‚ Huping Zhou‚ 47‚ from Los Angeles. Mr. Zhou was a licensed cardiothoracic surgeon in China before he immigrated to the United States of America (USA). After his immigration to the USA‚ he was employed as a researcher with the UCLA school of medicine. Few months later he was let go from his job‚ reasons unrelated to later HIPAA violation charges. He was accused and later found guilty‚ of illegally accessing medical records of his immediate
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information quicker and making access to information more accessible. There are some issues with privacy‚ such as HIPAA privacy‚ but it is becoming fixed rapidly. EMR opens up opportunity for social networking and media opportunities. The EMR markets health care and the services available with broader audiences. In this paper these topics will be discussed. “Patient doctor communication (PDC) is most powerful‚ encompassing‚ and versatile instruments available to the physician” (Shachak & Reis
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of information on patients who have been seen in our facilities that are HIV positive. My job is on the line unless I act expeditiously to resolve the situation. I hired a computer security consultant who is undercover as a nurse manager within the organization to determine how it was possible for the violations against HIPPA (Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act) regulations concerning the 4‚000 patients whose information was leaked to the public through newspapers‚ magazines‚ and
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HIPPA and Data Security Health Insurance Portability and Accountability (HIPAA) The HIPPA regulations address four broad areas. These are privacy‚ security identifiers‚ transaction and code sets. The Privacy Rule sets the standard for controlling protected health information (PHI) in different forms. Among others things‚ the privacy rules state that a patient has the right to access information‚ request for corrections
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1996‚ the Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act (HIPPA) were signed into law by President Bill Clinton (Physicians Billing Associates International‚ 2006). The HIPPA Act includes provisions for: • "Health insurance portability" • "Fraud and abuse control" • "Tax related provisions" • "Group health plan requirements" • "Revenue offset provisions" • "Administrative simplification requirements" (Physicians Billing Associates International‚ 2006) The act was put in
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Evolution of Health Care System With new technological innovations‚ paper medical records transformed into electronic formats. But although accessing information became more convenient with this new format‚ a tradeoff was created. Though health-care providers and practitioners in the US follow a standard procedure when it comes to protecting the privacy of these individuals with regard to their information‚ with the changing of systems‚ more loopholes were inevitably created. HIPAA The
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County Medical community hospital to understand what HIPPA is all about how it operates‚ how it can have a tremendous effect on us as healthcare providers in many ways. The “Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act was passed in 1996” by “congress to ensure the protection and privacy” of the patient health information‚ weathers it’s in a clinic‚ a hospital‚ nursing facility‚ or even a dermatologist office. The main focus of HIPPA (1996) is to make sure that patient information is protected
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