Essays on HIPAA

Health Care: U.S Health Care Timeline

Drugs and life-saving medical operations and procedures provide to everyone a better, longer, and healthier living. In America, the uninsured people have it rough when it comes to having affordable health care services. It has been about a century since America started debates on health care reforms and adoption to have everyone included in the program. A U.S health care timeline allows one to see and learn how the congress has handled the issue of America’s health care cover for its citizens over the decades. The year 1965 was the year that saw the signing in into law Medicare ...

Introduction

Nursing practitioner is frequently faced with ethical dilemmas during their service delivery. These ethical dilemmas are usually hard to tackle or make decisions on due to their sensitivity nature which is concerned with human life. Nevertheless, various regulatory bodies or organization have developed some principles or regulations to be followed by these nursing professionals in cases where they face cases which are hard to tackle. The first and main principle which a nursing or any other health provider is supposed to adhere to is the Hippocratic Oath. This is an oath which every health service provider is subject to. Hippocratic ...

Benefits of Computer Based Medical Records

Computer based medical records or electronic medical records (EMR) have been gaining popularity in the recent times as with the growth of modern technologies in other industries. Similar with other new innovations there are resistances to changes by the users. However, with EMR this is not the case as compared to paper based health records in hospitals there are eight core benefits that they offer when they are implemented in accordance to HIPPA safety and privacy rules. The core benefits are:

Immediate remote access to patient data

Health officers can easily access patient data hence timely diagnosis and treatment. The privacy rule in HIPAA will ...

Introduction

Security and privacy issues in hospital information systems play a fundamental role in the adoption of the systems. A Hospital Management system can only be adopted if proper security is ensured to protect the patients and the information that is found in their records.

HIPAA STANDARDS

The Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act (HIPAA) were enacted by the US congress in 1996. It protects the Health Insurance coverage for workers and their families when they change or lose their jobs. It established new standards for the movement and uses of the healthcare information. (Armstrong, et al 2005) There are three types of ...