Research paper final Draft

Week 4 – Project Sentence outline

Abstract

The goal of the research project was to evaluate the approaches taken by primary care providers to address patient privacy in their policies, where a focus on three organizations, that is, Mayo Clinic, United Health Group, and McKesson Corporation showed that diverse approaches to design and implementation of privacy policies had been undertaken.

Introduction

Primary care organizations are supposed to ensure that patients’ right to privacy is upheld, whether physical or electronic data files are used, which is a regulatory requirement (Manogaran, Thota, Lopez & Sundarasekar, 2017).

Literature review

Primary care organizations, regardless of size and region, across the nation, have put in place data privacy policies that guide care providers on how to uphold the confidentiality of the patients (Toohey, 2014).

Research Method

The research method entails the collection of secondary data that expounds on how the three organizations design and sustain privacy policies to guarantee the privacy of millions of patients who access health care services.

Results

Each of the three primary care organizations has enacted privacy policies, both for physical records and electronic records, that emphasizes handling information of every patient privately during performance duties.

Discussion

The results gathered reveal that while US regulatory bodies require care providers to uphold patient confidentiality, the three organizations employ unique approaches to attaining the privacy of physical and electronic patient data.

Conclusion

The project has shown that US hospitals have worked out various privacy policies that facilitate the confidentiality of patient information for both physical and electronic data in response to legislation and requirements put in place by the regulatory bodies.

Reference Page

Manogaran, G., Thota, C., Lopez, D., & Sundarasekar, R. (2017). Big data security intelligence for healthcare industry 4.0. In Cybersecurity for Industry 4.0 (pp. 103-126). Springer, Cham.

Toohey, T. J. (2014). Understanding Privacy and Data Protection. New York, NY: Thomson Reuters.