Privacy Policy : The Fastest Growing Crime

As human beings and citizens of the world, everyone values their privacy. It is a right that is often looked over and taken for granted by most. Since the beginning of time, there have been concerns about individuals’ rights to privacy and their personal information remaining confidential. Our founding fathers had concerns about this which is why, “…this right has developed into

The primary goal of the Privacy Rule is to protect the individual’s health information from improper use and at the same time allowing the transfer of health information that will deliver and stimulate high quality health care. The Privacy Rule, affect health plans, health care clearinghouses, as well as health care provider who provide health information in electronic method in association with transactions for which the Secretary of HHS has adopted standards under HIPAA (HHS.gov, 2008).

Your privacy is important to us. This privacy policy is intended to give you confidence in the privacy and security of the personal information we obtain from you.

All customers must sign a privacy notice. Similar to the notice everyone signs in the doctor’s office we must also disclose to all customers what information we collect, why we collect it and how it is shared with others. Why is this

way to track employee whereabouts and location at all times in violation of their privacy.

A major goal of the Privacy Rule is to assure that individual's health information is protected properly while allowing health information that is needed to provide a quality of service to people who need it. Although the healthcare field is diverse, the Rule is flexible and covers a wide range of uses and disclosures that need to be addressed (Burke & Weill, 2005).

With the healthcare that have changed as a result of the Hipaa privacy law, rules, and regulations. Hipaa privacy law is to protect the patient health records, and Privacy, governing access, use, and disclosure. With the privacy rule protection consistent set of standards affecting the providers, health plans. With noncompliance or penalties want to contact the authority, law enforcement.

However, I believe that there were more policies that could have been added to the handbook that affects many people, and a few policies could have been explained in further detail. The policies that stood out to me were the “Open door policy”, “Proprietary Information Policy”, “Anti discrimination policy”, “Sexual Harassment”, and the Policy on the use of Personal use of computers. There are a few pros and cons for each policy, if you were to take my opinions that I will be providing in the summary below into consideration, your organization may be able to combat issues that may arise in the future, and answer service member questions and ease concerns.

To understand the responsibilities and define minimum security requirements of XYZ health care organization. All employees under the scope of this policy should abide by this policy.

The Privacy Rule establishes national standards that were put into place to protect certain kinds of health information. The HHS issued this Privacy Rule in order to complement the HIPPA Act of 1996. The Privacy Rule deals specifically with organizations disclosure and use of an individuals protected health information. The Privacy Rule major objective is to ensure that the health information of an individual is properly

While I trust the government and support their policies, you, the federal government, have failed us Americans. When attempting to gain information for an investigation, nearly 22.1 million innocent Americans have been exposed to the public with their personal information hanging by a thread, according to the Washington Post. You politicians may assume that justice is served by providing victims with incentives of extra security technology, but the federal government should not be allowed to gain information from personal devices for their investigation. Furthermore, the use of malware to hack these innocent Americans is an invasion of privacy, ruins devices and their data, ensues lawsuits and their costs with unnecessary breaches, and may even put people’s lives at risk.

The Privacy Rule – This policy ensures patient have the right to access and change the information in their EHR. It also ensures providers and EHR vendors implement organizational, administrative and physical safeguards to ensure confidentiality and privacy of patient information. In addition, this rule provides a patient the right to access his/her records and request changes at any given time.

The Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act (HIPAA) Privacy Rule is the driving force in protecting our patient’s information. We take patient privacy serious and will continue to do so. The following is a summary of the HIPAA Privacy Rule and the Notice of Privacy Practices (NPP).

According to HIPAA Privacy Rule. Each covered entity, with certain exceptions, must provide a notice of its privacy practices. The Privacy Rule requires that the notice contain certain elements. "The notice must describe the ways in which the covered entity may use and disclose protected health information. The notice must state the covered entity’s duties to protect privacy, provide a notice of privacy practices, and abide by the terms of the current notice. The notice must describe individuals’ rights, including the right to complain to HHS and to the covered entity if they believe their privacy rights have been violated. The notice must include a point of contact for further information and for making complaints to the covered entity. Covered entities must act in accordance with their notices." (HHS 2003)

3.) Under HIPAA, covered entities (healthcare providers, health plans and healthcare clearinghouse) must comply with the privacy rules. A covered entity may develop its own privacy rules that would accommodate its own needs of protected health information (PHI) management but it most comply with the HIPAA guidelines. It is the responsibility of the entity to put in place a privacy official to oversee the policies, procedures and be on hand and available to be contacted in reference to the privacy rule. A patient should be given a privacy notice act at his/her health facility stating how their (PHI) is being used and to whom it will be shared. The covered entity should include in the notice their duty to assure the patients privacy as well as how and whom to contact if there is a complaint or they feel that their rights have been violated. As of 2009 the Office of Civil Rights (OCR) handles complaints that are made on privacy policies, procedure and practices of HIPAA covered entities.