Essays on Hippa

The integration of technology in our daily lives is something that has significantly changed the way we communicate. In the contemporary setting, information received in one corner of the world will within seconds be discussed and aired across major and local media stations and shared widely across the social media platforms (Thomas, McIntosh & Edwards, 2013). In essence, we are living in a global village with the internet having outwitted all the physical barriers that have previously hindered communication. This aspect has created a society that is in dire need of information and each one of us is yearning to ...

Abstract

The transformation of the Primary Care Practices (PCP) into The Patient- Centered Medical Home (PCMH) model is expected to improve patient’s care, comprising even the ones with complex needs. According to Rich et.al (2012), PCMH is expected to reduce the risks associated with fragmented care and poor outcomes. The paper will also address factors as whether or not patient health care needs and even preferences are being met, whether the care is appropriate for the illness, timeliness, and procedures involved. Moreover, it will comprehensively address the state of provider contracting and its direction in the future. Nonetheless, the ...

One of the most significant tasks managed by Health Service Administrators is managing the legal and regulatory issues that face healthcare, and health care providers. Leadership is called upon to ensure that these legal premises are followed, in order to protect patients, health care providers, and health agencies alike. Ann Smith, CEO UK Healthcare was tasked to explain some of the leading legal and regulatory issues which impact the delivery and management of healthcare. She indicated that the most prominent issues listed in no particular order, from a legal standpoint, facing health service administrators include the application of HIPPA, ...

Introduction

The sensitivity of health information creates the need to for proper protection. However, the emergence of technology has proved to be a major impediment in the fight against information insecurity. It is critical to understand that several factors that have been attributed to the insecurity of information have mainly been caused by human behaviors. Therefore, the security experts are under the threat of losing their mandate due to uncontrolled behavior by humans. It is important for every practitioner to understand that certain guiding principles govern the practice of nursing due to the handling of critical information about the patients ( ...

The advent of HIPPA Act in 1996 provided for security and provision of health electronic record (EHR) or personal health record (PHR). PHR are records entered by patients through certain software and hardware (Al-Ubaydli, 2010). PHR are different from EHR where the latter are used by health care providers while the former used by patients themselves. Hence, this presentation will discuss the data ranges, solution types, and benefits of PHR in advancing information security of a hospital in accordance to the HIPPA act.

Common data ranges of PHR are: family past, daily living annotations, immunizations, Lab ...

The breach in data use causes billions of dollars in wastage. This risks the credibility in medical well being, and the future of most healthcare providers. To help protect the breaches, the Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act (HIPPA) controls and protects the usage, transmission and storage of healthcare information. It protects both electronic and paper formats with the main aim of guaranteeing the privacy and security of healthcare information. On the other hand, the Health Information Technology for Economic and Clinical Health Act (HITECH) came into law on February 17, 2009 mainly to improve and promote the adoption ...

Cover Letter,

Mercy Medical Center has enlisted Howard Electronics as a potential bidder for the supply of one computer server. Howard company was considered for the supply after careful review and analysis of the company’ background information captured in the website and other business reports. To this end, the hospital is seeking information regarding the company’s services and product. The required information is captured in the Request for Proposal document attached to this letter.

The hospital is currently using four servers located in the departments of pharmacy, clinician, laboratory, and admission. These servers host patients’ health records handled by the departments. ...

The HIPAA passed in 1996, protects patients’ confidentiality, ensure people keep their health insurance upon job loss, and assist in controlling administrative costs. The Act addresses three key areas: portability, administrative simplification, and privacy. The law applies to healthcare providers, healthcare clearinghouses and health plans such as Medicare and Medicaid. Personal health information that the law considers confidential include names, significant dates such as birth dates, contact information, social security numbers, photographs and any other unique identifying information. The Act prescribes several medical forms that patients must sign in order to protect their privacy and confidentiality rights regarding the ...

The Health Insurance Portability and accountability Act (HIPPA) give regulations for the protection of health information about patients. However, whenever a patient goes to a hospital or any other medical institution, a medical professional accesses the medical information of the concerned party with ease. Therefore, there comes a concern that if the medical professional can easily access the information, so can hackers. Therefore, patients need more protection that what the HIPPA currently offers.

Thus, the most significant area is security. Stakeholders should protect records in any field from access by unauthorized persons. There are numerous reports that government records get hacked. Therefore, the ...

Instruction

System Development Life Cycle (SDLC) is a process of scheduling, selecting/picking, and evaluating a healthcare information system (Agarwal & Mohan, 2011). According to Garmany, Walker and Clark (2005) these four stages have a number of tasks within each stage. Garmany et al. (2005) indicates that, in this stage, problems are identified and picked as opportunity for advancement. Notably, the organization at this level is determined by whether the new system is required and if needed, is it financially feasible in the current time. After determining that the new system is needed, the requirements of the user are put into consideration. The process is ...

1). The Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act or HIPPA and the Health Information Technology for Economic and Clinical Health Act HITECH regulations are significant as they exert their impact on the health care system. They are also significant because they also exert their influence on the future of the health care system as health related security concerns are associated with these regulations. HIPPA has a wide impact on the health policy of the state, on the insurers, health providers, and consumers (Sridhar, 2013). HITECH is, however a part of ARRA or American Recovery and Reinvestment Act, which comprises of the ...

Signed by the Governor on the ninth day of August in 1999, Kendra’s Law was created simply to enforce safety for absolutely everyone when it comes to interacting with or being exposed to a mentally ill person in the state of New York. Action was taken fairly quickly after an unfortunate tragedy in January 1999, involving an innocent young woman named Kendra Webdale who had been fatally pushed in front of a train by a man suffering from a long history of mental illnesses. Sadly, these types of disasters occur every single day, all over the world. While Kendra’s Law may ...

The Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act (HIPAA)

Abstract The Congress of the United States enacted the HIPPA (Health Insurance Portability and Accountability) Act in 1996 and President Bill Clinton signed it into law in the same year. HIPPA Title I effectively protect workers and their families with health insurance coverage when they lose or change their jobs. HIPPA Title II is referred to as the AS (Administrative Simplification)provisions requires the efficient national standards establishment for employers, health insurance plans, national identifiers for providers as well as health care transactions that are electronic (Chaikind, 2004). This study will expound on the human capital improvement project ...

As an administrator of a nursing home, the premises received an announcement that the association was being purchased by a national group. Following that, there are new policies that will take effect and will hence be implemented, this will result in the displacement of some its residents. Some of these victims have no close families, have difficulty communicating and do not seem to support the reasonableness of their medical information. Following this occurrence, preparations for these persons are then required. There are a number of factors to consider before making preparations for these patients; such as methods of communication with patients. We ...

Introduction

Health informatics is the use of informational science and computers for the advancement of health care. Utilizing computers, medical technology, and communications infrastructure the goal of the field is the advancement of health care and the better delivery of health care services. Many fields fall under the purview of health informatics including: medicine, dentistry, nursing, pharmacology, occupational therapies, and medical research. Health management information systems combines “people, data, processes and health information technologies to collect, process, store, and provide needed results – all in support of healthcare” (Tan, 2010, p. 71). Several enterprise level software packages exist in order ...

Issues for Healthcare Organizations

Lesson 3:1- Antitrust Lesson 3:2 - Health Information Management Lesson 3:3 - Fraud, Abuse, and Corporate Compliance Abstract This document contains answers to lessons 3 units 1, 2, 3 pertaining to Issues for Healthcare Organizations. Unit 1 explores antitrust management; unit 2 - Health Information Management and unit 3 Fraud, Abuse, and Corporate Compliance. Issues for Healthcare Organizations Lesson 3:1- Antitrust

Question 1: Antitrust regulations - Sherman and Clayton Acts

- Mergers, consolidations and acquisition components of Sherman and Clayton antitrust acts like any other corporate legal intervention endorses regulations regarding purchasing; selling, dividing and combining with other companies that offer different ...

The Robert Courtney Case

- Discuss the rights and expectations that a patient has when interacting with an organization or person providing some level of healthcare services.

There are several rights which every patient receiving medical care has and should expect compliance with. These rights are:

The right to be treated with respect, that means that they will not be discriminated against for any reason by the providers, practitioners, or even the payer. The patient has a right to obtain their medical records as enshrined under HIPPA in 1996. HIPPA furthermore enshrines a right to privacy of medical records except where excepted by the act. The right to make a treatment choice, meaning, the right to define the course of medical care and choose alternative treatment ...

Introduction

The Health Insurance Portability and accountability Act (HIPAA) became law in 1996 and is intended to set standards for our healthcare providers in regard to sharing, storage and the protection of personal health information. This law was enacted by the congress to protect patient health information from access or use by unauthorized individuals or organizations as well as making health care portable and providing a non-discriminatory protection to all patients. No one wants to go to the hospital, talk to the doctor in private but later gets to hear that the same information that they gave to the doctor has ...

Unlicensed persons in patient care settings. Administrative, policy, and ethical issues

Description of issue and its impact on the population it affects most.

Arguments or facts used in the article to support the proposed solution

Ethical and legal issues reported for your proposed solution

Ethical and legal issues reported for administrative intervention

Explanation of managerial responsibilities related to administrative ethical issues.

Identification of any proposed solutions.

Health care organizations around the world have as their foundation management strategy a code of ethics, generally and interdisciplinary. From an administrative perspective it is a means of creating and maintaining order within that social structure. However astute leadership might be, with instituted code of ethics ...

Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act (HIPAA) refers to a set of comprehensive rules enacted in 1996. The Act has two sections; Title I which provides for access to healthcare, portability and renewability while Title II deals with prevention of healthcare fraud and abuse. The first section (Title I) ensures that employees, as well as their families, have access to affordable healthcare when they change or lose jobs. On the other hand, title II deals with protection of a patient’s healthcare information. HIPPA requires healthcare providers to develop and follow procedures for maintaining confidentiality of a patient’s health information. This ...

Research on the Web, Social Networking and the Network

Patton-Fuller Community Hospital Networking Virtual Organization

In the past few decades, in the increasing demand for technological innovation has taken the world by storm as all commercial, government and private organizations have relied to the convenience offered by technology in monumentally fast-tracking their operations. Among the many organizations that adapted into technological integration are hospitals and Patton-Fuller Community Hospital is no different. There are many technological advancements that aids organizations in infusing all elements of their business in one place and that is the use of The Web, Social Networking and Networking itself. Using the three has their own ...

1.0 Introduction Medicare fraud refers to obtaining money from the Medicare system under false pretense. Many Americans cannot afford to pay for health services. As a result, the Social Security Act in 1965 gave rise to Medicare in order to finance diverse forms of medical care for the vast number of Americans who cannot afford medical insurance. Different forms of Medicare fraud have evolved in the recent past but the bottom line for all of the forms is to illegitimately collect money from the Medicare system. Medicare fraud is just a fragment of the much bigger and intricate web of ...

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 ...