Standards Application In Health and Human Services



Standards Application In Health and Human Services

Introduction

The health and human service (HHS) is US prime organization that is accountable to protect people health and health records through essential human services. The IT department under the 3004 act revised the standards in 2010 (Health and Human Services Department, 2012).

Discussion

Information Technology Standards for Health in Health and Human Services (HHS)

The set of standards published in Federal Register in (2010). The HHS Standards for applications used by the IT department involve the protection and security of Electronic Health Records (EHR). The advantages for these standards implementation in the HSS by the IT department include the approval from the “Centers of Medicaid and Medicare” to improve healthcare among US population.

The Significance of Electronic Health Records by the IT Department

The use of the electronic health records by the IT department will result in the delivery of absolute and precise services that are required for quality care. This will let the HHS professionals to get promptly aware of the patient disease through records before examination. The admittance of HTML, XML, MAC, URL, HTTP and TCP-IP will develop better access patterns to information providers for diagnostic purposes and improvement of health results. The standard applications will empower the patients to participative more actively and can entertain electronic copies of medical records (Skilton, 2011).

The planning and management of the action and milestones (POA&M) standard is followed by reporting. The protection standard emphasize on the minimum standards implementation to secure HHS data, systems, programs and the applications through the awareness of systemic areas through identification to make informed risk based decisions. The IT system must have POA&M for the weakness identification, management and mitigation errors to report in POA&M (Health and Human Services Department , 2012).

The IT department follows the standards prepared ...