Keeping patient medical records confidential by educating healthcare worker the importance of HIPAA Law and regulation.

1. Roletha Flowers
Week1 Discussion2
Confidentiality

2. HIPAA
• The Health Insurance Portability and
Accountability Act (HIPAA), became law in 1996.
It requires health care providers, insurance
companies and others involved in health care
transactions to provide security on any system
containing personal health information, store and
transmit that information according to
standardized rules, and place an automatic audit
on files to help keep track of who should have
access to them and whether those access rules
have been violated.

3. How to keep patient health records
protected
• Keep Celebrities records separate with
different coding
• Immediate care givers only has access
• Create a Hard Stop where care givers have to
enter employee ID to open records
• No unauthorized personnel access
• Employees held accountable of their actions
• Violators will be prosecuted, even terminated

4. Who to contact
• If any employee come in contact with a
violator
• Notify your immediate supervisor
• Or employees can use the Anonymous Hot
line *411

5. Questions
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