264 Search Results for Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act HIPAA
Corporate Culture in Healthcare It
What actions support a strong corporate culture in healthcare IT?
According to a comprehensive review of the available literature on the topic of healthcare information technology (IT) in relation to corporate cul Continue Reading...
There is confusion about laws which are subject to different interpretations and this result in critical information not being made available. This is caused by such laws like the "Educational Rights and Privacy Act -- FERPA, Health Insurance Portab Continue Reading...
Innovation at Baystate Health
Informatics and Technology Innovations at Baystate Health
Baystate Health is among the largest health systems in New England and the largest employer in Western Massachusetts ("About Baystate Health," 2014). The crown Continue Reading...
Training Program ProposalTraining is an essential part of customer satisfaction since better-equipped employees would give better services to the customers. The world population has become a consumer of health care, which is considered one of the maj Continue Reading...
However, because they make billing more efficient, the majority of large urban practice groups and hospitals have already made the switch to electronic records, according to Michael R. Costa, attorney and associate at Greenberg Traurig, LLP, in Bost Continue Reading...
Research risk management programs for health care facilities or organizations
· Introduction
Healthcare risk management entails the administrative and clinical processes, systems and reports applied for the purpose of detecting, assessing, mon Continue Reading...
innovation: Healthcare
Both the Framingham heart study and the Alameda County study, because of their size, rigor, and length, are frequently used to prescribe specific healthcare policies for the macro population. The Framingham study has been cal Continue Reading...
Privacy of Health Records in the United States: Health Information Privacy in the Correctional Setting
The advent of technology both eased the handling of patients' health records by health practitioners and elevated the importance of health informa Continue Reading...
electronic health record-Keeping (EHRs)
According to Jensen, Jensen & Brunak (2012)'s article entitled "Mining electronic health records: Towards better research applications and clinical care," scientists have a potentially invaluable source o Continue Reading...
Ranajee, N. (2012). Best practices in healthcare disaster recovery planning. Health Management Technology. May 2012.
As electronic medical records become the norm, health care institutions need to maintain backup systems and develop cohesive disast Continue Reading...
Optimizing Merged Health Information Systems
Although the merger of two comparably sized companies competing in the same industry is a relatively commonplace business strategy, the process is fraught with obstacles and challenges and a significant pe Continue Reading...
Policy Communication: HITECH ACT
Health policy communication: HITECH Act
Policy description
Part of the 2009 U.S. Recovery and Reinvestment Act (ARRA) are the provisions of HITECH (Health Information Technology for Economic and Clinical Health), a Continue Reading...
Translational ResearchCurrent Nursing Practice in the Healthcare Setting Requiring ChangeThere are numerous areas within nursing that demand change in everyday healthcare practice. More often than not, irrespective of the healthcare setting, an inven Continue Reading...
Translational ResearchCurrent Nursing Practice in the Healthcare Setting Requiring ChangeThere are numerous areas within nursing that demand change in everyday healthcare practice. More often than not, irrespective of the healthcare setting, an inven Continue Reading...
Legal and Ethical Issues in Healthcare: violation of professional boundaries
Introduction
The nursing profession emerges top of the most widely trusted and respected professions (NCSBN, 2018). The results of these polls are an indication of the spe Continue Reading...
" (U.S. Department of Health and Human Services, nd) Key provisions of the standards include protection in the areas of: (1) access to medical records; (2) notice of privacy practices; (3) limits on uses of personal medical information; (4) prohibiti Continue Reading...
Participants are also protected by prohibiting employers from deducting costs from their tax liability of not complying with ERISA6.
Both ERISA and the Prudent Investor Rule prohibit certain types of transactions. According to Laura Jordan6, the U. Continue Reading...
New Continuity Manager
What do you think is going on here?
Business continuity planning and disaster recovery capability has become mandatory for all healthcare organizations in the Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act (HIPAA), pass Continue Reading...
Safeguarding Health Information: The Importance of Cybersecurity in Healthcare
Introduction
In today's digital age, the healthcare industry faces unprecedented challenges in ensuring the security and confidentiality of patient information. With the Continue Reading...
Advance Information Management and the Application of Technology
In this modern age, the incorporation of information technology (IT) with the health care system is important. . With the need of quality care within the industry, there is great signi Continue Reading...
The health record, also known as the medical record, is a systematic documentation of a patient's medical history and care. While the primary purpose of health records is to record details regarding patient care and treatment to provide continuity o Continue Reading...
If the marketing claims to be medically expedient then personal health records may be released.
3. Are there requirements for covered entities to have written privacy policies? If so, what has to be addressed in the policy?
Yes, covered entities d Continue Reading...
American History: Discussion
Today, the existence of America is often assumed to be obviously good because of the existence of American democracy and positive American democratic values exported all over the world. However, that was not always the c Continue Reading...
They each get on the phone, pull up the image on computer and discuss the image and the results and what the results indicate.
One recent study measured the productivity benefits of using PACS and the participants, all radiologists estimated there Continue Reading...
for-Profit Business/Consulting
Health Information Technology (HIT) is a term that is used to refer to comprehensive management and control of health information throughout computerized systems and its safe exchange between various stakeholders in th Continue Reading...
Ethical Responsibilities: Avoid Putting Organization at Risk
The 1996 HIPAA (Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act) helps millions of U.S. employees and family members transfer and carry on with the same healthcare insurance coverage e Continue Reading...
young, one may keep a diary, recording events, thoughts, and feelings. The diary creates a record that can be used to look back on a past time, and provide details that document events that can be used to aid recall. This is especially useful were d Continue Reading...
HIPAA and Laptops
The objective of this study is to answer the questions of what ethical issues exist when health information privacy is not protected and what some of the reason were for enacting HIPAA in addition to protecting privacy. This study Continue Reading...
From a utilitarian perspective, the improper disclosure of confidential health information related to HIV / AIDS is an absolute wrong. While such improper disclosure may actually be beneficial to the at-risk people in the patient's life, such as un Continue Reading...
HIPAA Compliance
Unfortunately, the world we live in is not always trustworthy. There are those even in the most sensitive positions, like healthcare providers, who are more than willing to exploit patient information for their own selfish gains. Th Continue Reading...
Peachtree Healthcare
IT Architecture Recommendations to Peachtree Healthcare
The discussions and cursory analyses in the Harvard Business Review case Too Far Ahead of the IT Curve? (Dalcher, 2005) attempt to implement massive IT projects without co Continue Reading...
Some or all such authority may be in fact unlimited. This is when a committee can counterbalance authority and diffuse power within an organization since effectively only a small faction is making important decisions. The best use of committees is t Continue Reading...
But regardless of what the public heard or read repeatedly, only workers (or their dependents) with such conditions are affected by the law. For workers who lose group coverage and need individual policies, the law sets up formidable hurdles. So far Continue Reading...
Activity Studies found common features high-performing health departments manage diabetes. These departments include receiving external funding programming, a -management education program recognized American Diabetes Association, partnership opport Continue Reading...
Security in Healthcare
The recent advances in technology -- databases that store personal medical records and information -- are bringing tools to patients, doctors and other healthcare professionals that were simply not available just a few years Continue Reading...
For example, almost all companies doing business on the Internet will have a link disclosing their privacy policy and the steps they will take to ensure the customer's privacy. Privacy matters become an issue because, in order to transact business Continue Reading...
Obama's health care reform will make health care more accessible and more affordable and make insurers more accountable, as well as expand health care coverage to every American and make the health care system sustainable by stabilizing family budg Continue Reading...
This creates a nerve with the client that their private information is going to be unprotected and confidentiality is going to be broken . There is no safe way to keep all information private. However, all mental health professionals must take all n Continue Reading...