Est1 Task 1

Health Insurance Probability and Accountability Act (HIPAA) mandated the adoption of privacy and security protection for identifiable health information. This particular privacy rule has been implemented throughout the healthcare industry. The HIPAA privacy rule also protects all health information in a medical organization such as medical records and lab reports. In addition, security rule is limited in range and focuses primarily on electronic protected health information.
The security regulation is based upon on three distinctive principles, comprehensiveness, scalability, and technology. The principal comprehensiveness, define how protective health information is maintain electronically. It also discusses how the patients medically information is stored. A good example is, data can be stored on magnetic tapes including disks and hard …show more content…
It also allows physicians and authorizes medical staff to view patient’s medical record. But password and security codes are given to certain medical staff to protect the privacy of individuals. Furthermore, scalability grants permission to the organizations to conclude on security measures appropriate to its operational risks.
The security rule has meaningful standards that are grouped into five categories; administrative safeguard, physical safeguard, technical standards, organizational standards, and policies, procedures, and documentation requirements. Administrative safeguards have several standards that help implement the security rule. The security operation purpose require organizations to evaluate their risks to security and implement policies and procedures that prohibit, detect, and acceptable security violations and to define appropriate approval for security violations. Another, workforce security has three implementation qualifications that are mandatory by the organizations. The organization has to contain policies and procedures to ensure that each members of the particular