Annotated Bibliography on the Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act Introduction As the evolution of healthcare from paper documentation to electronic documentation and ordering, the security of patient information is becoming more difficult to maintain. Electronic healthcare records (EHR), telenursing, Computer Physician Order Entry (CPOE) are a major part of the future of medicine. Social media also plays a role in the security of patient formation. Compromising data in the information age is as easy as pressing a send button. New technology presents new challenges to maintaining patient privacy. The topic for this annotated bibliography is the Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act (HIPAA). Nursing informatics role is imperative to assist in the creation and maintenance of the ease of the programs and maintain regulations compliant to HIPAA. As a nurse, most documentation and order entry is done electronically and is important to understand the core concepts of HIPAA regarding electronic healthcare records. Using keywords HIPAA and informatics, the author chose these resources from scholarly journals, peer reviewed articles, and print based articles and text books. These sources provide how and when to share patient information, guidelines and regulation d of HIPAA, and the implementation in relation to electronic future of nursing. Annotations Clinch, T. (2012). Nursing Practice Question: Is texting/receiving patient information a HIPAA rules violation? Georgia Nursing, 72(2), 6. The author is a MSN prepared Registered Nurse. She is a practice director with the Texas Nurses Association. This author writes about texting and receiving patient information and the imp... ... middle of paper ... ...s relevant to nursing implications, system implications, and articles defining and relating HIPAA to current practice. Articles found were scholarly and from different sources. Medical, information systems, and nursing articles were read to compile both well-defined and broad information regarding HIPAA that can be used for all areas in the nursing field. Overall these sources proved to provide a great deal of information to this nurse. All sources pertained to HIPAA standards and regulations. This nurse sought out an article from when HIPAA was first passed to evaluate the timeline prospectively. While addressing the implications of patient privacy, these articles relate many current situations nurses and physicians encounter daily. These resources also discussed possible violations and methods to prevent by using an informaticist and information technology.
All health care employees will do everything within their power to protect the patient’s right to privacy. This means they will follow the HIPAA law closely. They will disclose information that is relevant to a specialist or treatment. Also, means they will release information that a patient has asked for as promptly as possible.
Some of the things that HIPAA does for a patient are it gives patients more control over their health information. It sets boundaries on the use and release of health records. It establishes appropriate guidelines that health care providers and others must do to protect the privacy of the patients’ health information. It holds violators accountable, in court that can be imposed if they violate patients’ privacy rights by HIPAA. Overall HIPAA makes it to where the health information can’t b...
However, to fully benefit from implementing the recommendations as outlined by the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act of 2009 (ARRA), one would need to consider some barriers that could impact the success of computerization in the health care setting. Acceptance by the senior nurses is one hurdle that the organization has to address. The resistance lies more in the lack of computer skills of the seasoned nurses. Thus, this drawback calls for providing adequate training to the nurses that would require more Information Technology (IT) staff, which consequently would impose additional cost to the hospitals. One other concern with the EHR would be maintaining the privacy and security of patient information. McGonigle and Mastrian (2015) aptly cited “Network accessibility and network availability are necessary evils that pose security risks. ... As the cloud expands, so do the concerns over security and privacy. In an ideal world, everyone would understand the potential threats to network security” (p.
The Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act, most commonly known by its initials HIPAA, was enacted by Congress then signed by President Bill Clinton on August 21, 1996. This act was put into place in order to regulate the privacy of patient health information, and as an effort to lower the cost of health care, shape the many pieces of our complicated healthcare system. This act also protects individuals from losing their health insurance if they lose their employment or choose to switch employers. . Before HIPAA there was no standard or consistency for the enforcement of the privacy for patients and the rules and regulations varied by state and organizations. HIPAA virtually affects everybody within the healthcare field including but not limited to patients, providers, payers and intermediaries. Although there are many parts of the HIPAA act, for the purposes of this paper we are going to focus on the two main sections and the four objectives of HIPAA, a which are to improve the portability (the capability of transferring from one employee to another) of health insurance, combat fraud, abuse, and waste in health insurance, to promote the expanded use of medical savings accounts, and to simplify the administration of health insurance.
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The utilization of mobile devices and cloud computing in health organizations should be committed to protecting and respecting the privacy of protected health information and understanding the importance of keeping this information confidential and secure. The electronic health records and protected health information should be managed to ensure its security, confidentiality, integrity, and availability for authorized purposes. Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act of 1996 (HIPAA) via the mobile devices and cloud computing should maintain a process to guarantee compliance with applicable provisions of the Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act of 1996 (HIPAA). All members
... and HIPAA, Does instant access and availability from mobile technology jeopardize patient privacy? [Electronic version] Nursing Management, June 2007, 38-40
Each time a patient visits a doctor, is admitted to a hospital, goes to a pharmacist, or sends a claim to a health plan, a record is made of the confidential health information. The use of this information is protected and pieced together by state laws, which leave gaps in the protection of patient's privacy and confidentiality. Together all of the programs mentioned are developing strategies to better protect patient records. AHIMA members foresee daily conflicts and challenges dealing with patient confidentiality and access to their records. The resolution of these issues combined will one day result in a comprehensive national standard that will enhance individual privacy, foster research and protect the public health.
It is important for all individuals to be knowledgeable in health care law, which governs the legal relationships of patients, physicians and other medical professions, and health care insurers to one another. Being familiar with health care law will help individuals as they make important and difficult decisions about their health and care. Two important ones to review below are the Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act of 1996 (HIPAA0) and the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act (PPACA), which is more commonly known as Obamacare.
As a nurse, we are expected to be knowledgeable about our patients’ care and practice. However, some mistakenly disregard the importance of the other main priority we need to acknowledge. The Electronic Healthcare Records (EHR) should indisputably be secured. Technology is rapidly increasing which benefits our nursing practice and especially the treatment for the ones we take care of. Computer software prevents medical errors and easily accessible though other agencies. The risks of data breaching can happen in any healthcare facility due to careless acts and misuse of information. HIPAA should constantly be apart of our work ethics. HIPAA regulations are on our data security to prevent breaching from happening by having security codes and
The Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act of 1996, or HIPAA, is a law designed “to improve portability and continuity of health insurance coverage in the group and individual markets, to combat waste, fraud, and abuse in health insurance and health care delivery, to promote the use of medical savings accounts, to improve access to long-term care services and coverage, to simplify the administration of health insurance, and for other purposes.”1 HIPAA mandates that covered entities must employ technological means to ensure the privacy of sensitive information. This white paper intends to study the requirements put forth by HIPAA by examining what is technically necessary for them to be implemented, the technological feasibility of this, and what commercial, off-the-shelf systems are currently available to implement these requirements.
...entially and securely. Through following the ethical principles of nonmaleficence and fidelity a patient’s privacy and wellbeing can be maintain simultaneously. Even though privacy issues such as proper email and password sharing still arise we as nurses should still be advocates for promoting patient’s privacy and confidentiality. We as nurses have power of influence through various nursing organizations such as the ANA, and because of breaches in security opportunities have been made available for advancement in nursing informatics with a special concentration in cyber security. As health care professionals’ privacy, confidentiality and security are important elements that should not be violated. As our society continues to advance in technology, we as nurses should also be in a mindset of advancement to better serve and protect our patient’s privacy and wellbeing.
In this topic I will be explaining the laws of HIPPA, I’ll be explaining the definition, the history of HIPPA, when HIPPA was founded, and which types of environments follow the HIPPA law. HIPPA stands for the (Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act). The U.S. HIPPA law was made in order the protect patients, coworkers, and other staff members private information such as, health insurance, social security information, health information, and other things of such. Each facility that follows the HIPPA law must sign a letter as proof that everyone that is a staff member of that facility made an agreement to follow the HIPPA law. HIPPA also protects the release of any documentation that may be given out when not supposed to. When following
290). Throughout numerous healthcare organizations, e-Health techniques are regarded as vital to the delivery of quality, patient-centred health care. The e -technology can improve patient-physician relationships, to guide aimed questions for greater understanding of health conditions and better management of the health disorders. As per The Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services e-Health initiatives will help the health care industry deliver higher quality care and reduce costs. Among the limitations and shortcomings of E-health are the chances of impersonality, e-Health applications might not be user-friendly and commonly available. Patients also need to develop confidence in E-health. Concerns about privacy and security of information have slowed the development of this initiative (McGonigle & Garver Mastrian, 2015, p. 290). It is critical to assure the security of health-related medical records. The Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act of 1996 (HIPAA) is the main Federal laws that protects patient’s health information. The Law requires the organizations that manage health information to have policies and safeguards to protect health information saved on paper or
41). It was around this time that healthcare organizations started to recognize the importance of tracking health information and setting standards to which each facility should adhere to; thus, accreditation organizations such as JCAHO (Joint Commission on the Accreditation of Healthcare Organizations) were born (Mervat, Grostick, & Hanken, 2014, p. 44). Fast forwarding a few decades, during the 1980s personal computers were more easily accessible and affordable, and the healthcare industry took the opportunity to begin integrating computers into the field, resulting in storing patient records in databases (Mervat, Grostick, & Hanken, 2014, p. 45). Throughout the 1990s, policy was updating and developing; healthcare workers recognized the need to protect patient privacy (Mervat, Grostick, & Hanken, 2014, p. 47). In 2010, healthcare information management set a goal to move toward a paperless health record (Mervat, Grostick, & Hanken, 2014, p. 47). Today, health information management is responsible for “EHRs and accompanying technology like health information exchange, computer-assisted coding, voice recognition software, and patient portals” (Dimick,