Were there any limitations for improper discourse of health
information?
From my understanding of the improper discourse of health
information. That there are laws in both federal and state laws that
says it is against the law to disclose any patient's information with the
consent of the patient. This falls under the HIPAA laws that is a rule
of laws for all who take care of patients and those that do the coding
of those patient's information.
How was the patient compromised? What was the outcome?
One such thing did happen when I work as an outpatient records
clerk, at a facility of which I cannot remember. It was said that the
patient information was taken by someone who did not know that
patient and the person got both fined and in jail for an amount of time
as for who did it was not disclosed at that time, but we all were
required to retake the HIPAA tests and it would not let us pass it until
we got the questions answered right.
Did the HIM practitioners adhere to the AHIMA code of ethics?
To this date I didn't know if we had HIM practitioners for, I was not
aware of anybody watching these doctors.
How can the use of technological tools such as audit trails prevent
security breaches?
By having training all employees take safety class on how to prevent
such things as to know how to understand what was done as to keep
patients' information from leaking out by anyways that it can be done
by, leaving you PC on, cyber-attacks, lose lips from a co-worker, not
following the proper way of keeping a patient right to privacy of their
information.
As for me I saw a lot of patients' information that would make your
head swim, and to this date I have not any of that information leak
out from me.
