1. Health Insurance Portability and
Accountability Act of 1996
 Mandatory HIPAA Training
 All new and existing employees are required to go
through HIPAA training and successful pass the course
 HIPAA required Health & Human Services to establish
new guidelines, key principles, and national standards for
the handling of electronic healthcare transactions,
applicable to everyone working within the US healthcare
system.

2. Covered Entities
 Doctors
 Nurses
 Pharmacists
 Hospitals

3. Covered entities Con’t
 Clinics
 Nursing homes
 Private physician organizations
 Private health Insurance companies
 Medicare & Medicaid

4. Patient Rights
 Patients have the right to review the content of
stored records as well as request a copy of medical
records
 Patients have the right to request correction and
have notes appended to these records if any errors
are found
 Patients have the right to file a complaint with
healthcare provider organization at higher level

5. Privacy Rule Principles
 Consumer control
 The setting of boundaries
 Accountability
 Public responsibility
 Security

6. Health on the Net (HON)
 e-Health Code of Ethics was put in place to address
concerns surrounding the reliability of electronic
health information, privacy, and confidentiality

7. Penalty for Non-compliance
 For knowingly obtaining and disclosure of identifiable
information – up to $50,000 as well as 1 year
imprisonment
 False pretenses - $100,000 fine and up to 5 years in
prison
 With intent to sell - $250,000 and imprisonment for
up to 10 years.

8. questions

9. References
American Medical Association (2012) HIPAA Violations and
Enforcement http://www.ama-
assn.org/ama/pub/physician-resources/solutions-
managing-your-practice/coding-billing-
insurance/hipaahealth-insurance-portability-
accountability-act/hipaa-violations-enforcement.page
Wolper, L.F. (2011). Health care administration: Managing
organized delivery systems (5th ed.). Boston: Jones and
Bartlett