Chapter 12 Globlalization, Innovation, and 21sst Century Organizational Trends{0}
“HHS Delegates Authority for the HIPAA Security Rule to Office for Civil Rights”
This article is about the HIPPA, Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act, and how it will need to be more productive in keeping patient’s personal information confidential. The rule was sent to the OCR, Office for Civil Rights to be discussed upon. Because the OCR enforces HIPPA, the new electronic medical record system must maintain the security for private information. This article also mentions how both, security and privacy, go together when it comes to protecting patient information and complying with HIPPA at the same time.
In relation to Chapter 12, there is a section in information privacy which discusses the limits to exchanging certain information. It also describes how different countries impose their own security system and follow the proper protocol.
Working at a Health Clinic, I have experienced working and complying with the HIPPA regulation and maintaining patient medical records confidential. While going to the hiring process, all health industry employees, like myself, are asked to sign recognition of the meaning of the HIPPA rule. It is so critical in our field that it can cause immediate termination when violating such rule. Not only does it become unprofessional to violate such rule but it also leads to legal terms. Sharing or exchanging personal information to an unauthorized person can also lead to a lawsuit for disclosure of confidential documents. What is also involved in such rule is that if a person wants their own records, even after proving with an identification card that it is that person, he or she must sign off that they are who they represent and those records can be released to themselves. However, even when those records are about other people, the records themselves are still property of the health facility.
HHS Delegates Authority for the HIPAA Security Rule to Office for Civil Rights. (3 August). Business Wire. Retrieved November 24, 2009, from ProQuest Newsstand. (Document ID: 1815836121).