HIPPA REGULATIONS

HIPPA Regulations

HIPPA Regulations

Introduction

HIPAA Privacy Rule established national standards to protect the confidentiality and security of individual health information from unreasonable disclosure. Privacy Rule establishes the conditions for the use or disclosure of protected health information. The Office for Civil Rights in DHHS is responsible for implementing and ensuring compliance with confidentiality rules related to compliance with the procedures and sanctions or penalties for failure. Despite the fact that it is necessary for the protection of personal health information, there is also a need to develop and promote the use of communication technologies to facilitate the delivery of health care in an integrated system. Thus, the confidentiality rule is designed to balance these two competing demands.

Privacy Rule addresses covered entities, individually identifiable health information, as well as the protection of health information. Covered persons include persons or entities that transmit patient health information in electronic form. Health, Medical Plan, as well as medical centers covered person. Nevertheless, covers subjects not included group health plans is managed and maintained by the employer less than 50 participants or workers compensation or automobile insurance. Business partners can also be covered in person if their use or disclosure of individually identifiable health information in their service to cover education. HIPAA includes those who provide care for patients, which accounts for the service, as well as pay for services that had been received. Thus, any person (professional, nonprofessional, staff and volunteers) in a medical institution that uses or has access to patient medical HIPAA should follow the rules.

Privacy Rule protects electronic, written or oral, individually identifiable health information that a covered entity or its business partner has or transmits patient. This information includes demographic characteristics of the specific information relating to health conditions, medical care to the person and payment of medical services that has the potential to establish his identity. The medical record is only one type of protected health information. Examples include other protected health information to health insurance claims and billing information. Thus, the rule protects the confidentiality of patient specific information or information containing personal identifiers from the disclosed indiscriminately. Without this guarantee, the identity of an individual may be disclosed in the course of transmission and receipt of this information.

Removal of particular personal identifier allows information to be shared that do not violate the rules of confidentiality. For example, the probability of identifying the individual is low, when the name, address (including street, city, county, and the index), social security number, birth date, employer, telephone number, fax number, beneficiary's health, photographs, voice prints, fingerprints, driving right numbers, relatives, and medical record number are removed (www.hhs.gov / OCR / HIPAA / privacy.html). Information that may be disclosed to a ZIP code, if there is at least 20,000 residents in the area, the age, but if a person is 90 years or more, age should be 90 +, sex, race, ethnicity, marital status, date treatment, but only when reported in those ...