Prevent training
- 2. Introduction • There should never be a case where nurses or any other hospital worker are looking at patients records other than there patient they are working on. If anyone are found in violation of this law they should have immediate action taken against them. Just because a person is a celebrity that doesn’t mean their personal lives should be violated
- 3. HIPPA • “The Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act of 1996 (HIPAA; Pub.L. 104-191, 110 Stat. 1936, enacted August 21, 1996) was enacted by the United States Congress and signed by President Bill Clinton in 1996. Title I of HIPAA protects health insurance coverage for workers and their families when they change or lose their jobs. Title II of HIPAA, known as the Administrative Simplification (AS) provisions, requires the establishment of national standards for electronic health care transactions and national identifiers for providers, health insurance plans, and employers”.
- 4. Hitech • “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”.
- 5. Security Rule • “The HIPAA Security Rule establishes national standards to protect individuals’ electronic personal health information that is created, received, used, or maintained by a covered entity”
- 6. Penalties • Fines • Jail time • Loss of license to practice • Public humiliation • Job loss
- 7. Training • Making sure that people have read and signed the Privacy and security acts are step 1. • Next having quarterly meetings to reinstate what was signed and make sure everyone is following rules is step 2 • Step 3 would be to set up monthly security checks on public use computers of patient records
- 8. Training • You want people to understand that you are serious about the laws and will not take things lightly if laws are broken. • Keeping accurate records on who works with each patient is a must. • Doing checks to make sure everyone is where they should be is a must as well • Finally creating pass codes for each patient that only the team that is working with them will know and use will be a great idea. If codes are used under another nurse or doctors name it should flag the system.
- 9. Preventive Methods • For employees ways to make sure they are not in violation is to make sure they stay on only task assigned. If someone needs help make sure proper steps are taken. It is ok to ask questions to make sure you are in the right. Also logging off your computers properly will make sure that nobody else is working under your name. Also not sharing your pass words with anyone is a must. Every three months it is good to change your pass code to make sure nobody is using your account access.
- 10. References • Wolper, L.F. (2011). Health care administration: Managing organized delivery systems (5th ed.). Sudbury, MA: Jones and Bartlett Publishers, Inc • http://www.hhs.gov/ocr/privacy/hipaa/admin istrative/securityrule/index.html