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- 1. HIPAA | HITECH Reyn Cabarloc MHA 690: Health Care Capstone Dr. Jared Rutledge January 7, 2016
- 2. Presentation HIPAA – Health Insurance Portability Accountability Act of 1996 HITECH – Health Information Technology for Economic and Clinical Health Act of 2009
- 3. Compliance and Risk Management Compliance – Regulation Risk Management – Liability
- 4. HIPAA Security Rule Privacy Rule The Office for Civil Rights (OCR) enforces the Privacy and Security Rules through compliance and civil money penalties. (Health Information Privacy, 2015)
- 5. HIPAA Breach exceptions. – Unintentional access of PHI. – Inadvertent disclosure of PHI. – Unauthorized access or disclosure to PHI. It is the burden of the covered entity to define breach exception.
- 6. HITECH The improvement of health care quality, safety, and efficiency through the utilization of electronic health records (EHR) and secure electronic health information exchange (Health IT.gov, 2014)
- 7. Conclusion Civil penalties – Minimum: $100.00 per violation. – Maximum: 1.5 million annual maximum. Criminal penalties – Minimum: $50,000.00 fine and one year imprisonment. – Maximum: $250,000.00 fine and ten years imprisonment. (Health Information Privacy, 2015) .
- 8. Questions HIPAA: – Does it pertain to you as a health care individual? HITECH: – Are you in compliance? Is it worth the risk and how would you feel if your personal health record was breached?
- 9. References Health Information Privacy. (2015). HIPAA for professionals. Retrieved from http://www.hhs.gov/hipaa/for-professionals/index.html Health IT.gov. (2014). Policymaking, regulation, and safety: Health IT legislation and regulation. Retrieved from https://www.healthit.gov/policy- researchers-implementers/health-it-legislation-and-regulations
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- AIDET introduction. Acknowledge: Hello and thank you for being a participant of my presentation. Identify: My name is Reyn Cabarloc. Duration: The presentation is approximately 5 minutes. Explanation: The presentation reviews HIPAA and HITECH. Thank you: I would like to thank you in advance for your attendance.
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- Compliance and Risk Management manages health care organizations to meet standards of regulation and mitigate liability.
- Privacy Rule National standard for covered entities: health plans, health care clearing houses, and health care providers to use the minimum necessary standard to review protected health information (PHI); minimum necessary standard is defined as the practice and safeguard to limit unnecessary access and disclosure of PHI, covered entities must acquire the minimum PHI to conduct its business (Health Information Privacy, 2015). Security Rule The Security Rule pertains to the transmission of PHI in electronic format addressing the technical and non-technical safeguards of covered entities (Health Information Privacy, 2015). The Office for Civil Rights (OCR) enforces the Privacy and Security Rules through compliance and civil money penalties (Health Information Privacy, 2015).
- Unintentional access of PHI defines the unintentional access to protected health information; inadvertent disclosure is permissible if the Privacy Rule has not been violated; and unauthorized access denotes receiving party was not able to retain information.
- Enacted by American Recovery and Reinvestment Act of 2009.
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