privacy and confidentiality training

1. PRIVACY AND
CONFIDENTIALITY
HOLLIS CHARLES
MHA 690 HEALTH CARE CAPSTONE
DR. HWANG-JI LU
05/05/16

2. INTRODUCTION
 What is Privacy
 What is Confidentiality
 HIPAA
 HIPAA Violation and penalty
 Protecting Patient Information
 Covered Entities
 Conclusion
 References

3. WHAT IS PRIVACY
• Patient information security includes the seps healthcare
providers must take to guard patient’s “protected health
information “commonly referred to as PHI, from unauthorized
access or breaches of privacy.

4. WHAT IS CONFIDENTIALITY
• Confidentiality is one of the core duties of medical
practices. It requires health care providers to keep a
patient’s personal health information private unless
consent to release the information is provided by the
patient. Patients routinely share personal information
with health care providers

5. HIPAA
• Health Insurance Portability and Affordability Act
• Passed in congress in 1996
• Provides the ability to transfer and continue health insurance
coverage for millions of American workers and their families when
they change or lose their jobs;
• Reduces health care fraud and abuse;
• Mandates industry-wide standards for health care information on
electronic billing and other processes; and
• Requires the protection and confidential handling of protected health
information

6. HIPAA VIOLATION AND PENALITIES
HIPAA Violation Minimum Penalty Maximum Penalty
HIPPA violation due to
reasonable cause and not
due to willful neglect
$1000 per violation with an
annual maximum of
$100,000 for repeat
violation
$50,000 per violation with
an annual maximum of
$1.5 million
HIPAA violation due to
willful neglect but violation
is corrected and within the
required time period
$10,000 per violation with
an annual maximum of
$250,000 for repeat
violations
$50,000 per violation with
an annual maximum of
$1.5
HIPAA Violation due to
willful neglect and is not
corrected
$50,000 per violation with
an annual maximum of
$1.5 million
$50,000 per violation with
an annual maximum of
$1.5 million

7. WHAT IS PHI
• Patient Name
• Patient date of birth
• Patient address
• Patient social security number

8. HOW TO PROTECT PATIENT HEALTH
INFORMATION
• Do not discuss or disclose patient information to any individual
without the written consent or authorization
• Collect only information related to the care of the patient
• Do not give non employee access to work computer
• Have policies and procedures in place for what information can be
access

9. COVERED ENTITIES
• Health care plans
• Health care clearing house
• Health care providers

10. CONCLUSION
• Protection patient information and confidetality is very
important to health care organization. If a patient health
information is not protected it can cause harm to the patient.
Health care organization must have policies and procedures in
place on how much information for a patient can be disclosed
with conscent form the patient. HIPAA has rules and regulations
for all covered entities and when these rules are violated the
responsibility party will be sighted with a penalty.

11. REFERENCES
• American Medical Association: HIPAA violation and
Enforcement. Retrieved from
www.ama.assn.org/ama/pub/physician/resources/solution-
managing-your-practice
• Confidentiality: ethical Topic in Medicine – University of
Washington. Retrieved from https://depts.Washington.edu
• Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act. What is
HIPPA. Retrieved form www.dhcs.ca.gov

12. REFERENCES
• Patient Privacy and Security of Electronic Medical Information.
Retrieved from www.radiologyinfo.org
• U.S. Department of Health and Human Services National
Institute of Healt. Retrieved from https://privacyruleand
research.nih.gov