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· HIPPA Training Assignment Example (do not copy)

Stacey Samuels posted Nov 24, 2015 3:58 PM

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 The goals of HIPPA are to describe the rights of patients provided by the HIPAA privacy rule and to provide doctors and other providers with strategies to build and maintain a culture of compliance with the Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act of 1996 (HIPAA). The covered entities for HIPPA are doctors, clinics, hospitals, nursing homes, and pharmacies that transmit data electronically. The HIPPA privacy rule became effective on April 14, 2003, this rule grant patients specific right to control their medical records. Patients have the right to restrict data they don’t share. They also have the right to tell their providers where they want to be contacted. As a result of the Health Information Technology for Economic and Clinical Health (HITECH) Act that was passed in 2009, HIPAA has also been expanded to include business associates. Business associates are those persons or organizations that function on behalf of a covered entity, such as a doctor, and who either use or receive identifiable health information.

Hi TECH ACT The Health Information Technology for Economic and Clinical Health (HITECH) Act, enacted as part of the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act of 2009, was signed into law on February 17, 2009, to promote the adoption and meaningful use of health information technology. There are four categories of violations that reflect increasing levels of culpability; also four corresponding tiers of penalty amounts that significantly increase the minimum penalty amount for each violation. A maximum penalty amount of $1.5 million for all violations of an identical provision.

http://www.hhs.gov/ocr/privacy/hipaa/administrative/enforcementrule/hitechenforcementifr.html

Some of the methods used in our office to protect our patients’ privacy are having them sign in through our web portal. Our patients also communicate with the providers through the patient portal. If our physicians should release information to a parent are a family member, the patients will have to list the family member are parents as a contact for any information to be release. Our Patients has to also update their HIPPA yearly, by signing the disclosure. A physician should not share a patient's information with the patient's family or friends if the patient has asked the physician not to or if the physician believes, in his/her professional judgment, a disclosure would be inappropriate.