HIPAA As A Learning Management System Tool (LMS)

Research five healthcare provider websites and see if the site mentions HIPAA, HITECH, or The Joint Commission.

Use of an EHR presents major opportunities for the compromise of patient’s personal health information (PHI). The facility must ensure proper safe guards are implemented and functioning properly at all times. Employees need to be educated on the safety measures to prevent breach of patient confidential health records. Privacy breaches can result from misuse or improper storage of PHI by the healthcare professional, by third party payers, or by lack of proper encryption in the EHR system itself (Burkhardt & Nathaniel, 2014). The Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act (HIPAA) is a law that holds healthcare facilities and professionals accountable for keeping PHI confidential, patients to control

Under the HIPAA compliance audit program if a healthcare organization has attested and is later audited and found not to be compliant with HIPAA, the organization could face penalties including giving back the meaningful use incentive money. (Goedert, 2013) provided the following ways to ensure compliance: conduct mock audits, make sure all data within the organization is encrypted, computer access is logged, network security gaps have been filled, policies and regulations have been updated and expanded, and most importantly that all staff complete annual HIPAA training courses with emphasis on privacy and security.

Although the EHR is still in a transitional state, this major shift that electronic medical records are taking is bringing many concerns to the table. Two concerns at the top of the list are privacy and standardization issues. In 1996, U.S. Congress enacted a non-for-profit organization called Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act (HIPAA). This law establishes national standards for privacy and security of health information. HIPAA deals with information standards, data integrity, confidentiality, accessing and handling your medical information. They also were designed to guarantee transferred information be protected from one facility to the next (Meridan, 2007). But even with the HIPAA privacy rules, they too have their shortcomings. HIPAA can’t fully safeguard the limitations of who’s accessible to your information. A short stay at your local

I need to ensure I provide and arrange adequate training for my staff on a regular basis and ensure they are aware of any new legislations.

This unit will be responsible for researching and recommending a comprehensive compensation and benefit system. It will also handle payroll, payroll tax administration and benefit administration. It will be responsible for benefit education and

The new user policy section has been modified to require manager approval and validation of the user’s access request based upon the user’s role. Previously the policy only required manager approval for user’s requiring administrator privileges. In accordance with Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act (HIPAA) standards on access controls, users will have the minimum access required to perform the functions of their job in order to protect against unnecessary access to electronic protected health information (ePHI).

Discuss what types of security measures are most important to ensure the Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act (HIPPA) regulations are met.

Several years ago, a mandate was ordered requiring all healthcare facilities to progress from paper charting and record keeping to electronic health record (EHR). This transition to electronic formatting has pros and cons associated with it. I will be describing the EHR mandate, including who initiated it, when it was initiated, the goals of the EHR, and how the Affordable Care Act and the Obama administration are tied into it. Then I will show evidence of research and discuss the six steps of this process as well as my facilities progress with EHR. Then I will describe meaningful use and how my facility attained it. Finally, I will define HIPAA law, the possible threats to patient confidentiality relating to EHR, and how what my facility

when working in the front office of a medical office there are multiple things to put in consideration to avoid violating HIPAA.

The hospital accounting department will also be off limits except only for those personnel that are authorized. Extra vigilance must be place on all medical record rooms, since the hospital still has paper medical records. All medical staff will receive training so that they understand the importance of HIPAA. This policy will guarantee that we have controls in place in regards to accessing patient information and staff access is monitored.

There would be multilevel of HIPAA training with presentations, online training material, and a frequently asked questions page. The live presentation will be mandatory for all current medical staff and new hires. The online training would be a refresher course given out every year, with a quiz at the end. A frequently asked question page would be available all year long on the intranet and updated as needed.

An important part of HIPAA is the minimum use standard, which mandates that healthcare providers use and disclose patient information in ways that are minimally necessary to accomplish the task. For example, a billing clerk does not need access to a patient?s entire medical history to bill for a service rendered, says Hole-Curry. Therefore, you may want to divide patient files into sections, having an office policy that clearly states who may access each section. Consider converting to pocket-style classification folders,

Develop a training plan for new HIM employees that will ensure that they understand the HIPAA regulations and what their role is in maintaining them.

There are a multitude of patient privacy (HIPAA) and patient information concerns related to the use of technology in medical care. Selection of the proper hardware, operating systems and system software make the compliance with and documentation in support of these regulations far easier.