2. Privacy act
• The Health Insurance Portability and Accountability • After reading the policy and act you can see that it
Act of 1996 (HIPAA; Pub.L. 104–191, is not right to look act or share patient information
110 Stat. 1936, enacted August 21, 1996) was no matter what.
enacted by the United States Congress and signed by
President Bill Clinton in 1996. It was sponsored by
Sen. Nancy Kassebaum (R-Kan.).[1] Title I of HIPAA
protects health insurance coverage for workers and
their families when they change or lose their jobs.
Title II of HIPAA, known as the Administrative
Simplification (AS) provisions, requires the
establishment of national standards for electronic
health care transactions and national identifiers for
providers, health insurance plans, and employers.[2]
• This act gives the right to privacy to individuals
from age 12 through 18. The provider must have a
signed disclosure form the affected before giving out
any information on provided health care to anyone,
including parents.[3][4]
• The administrative simplification provisions also
address the security and privacy of health data. The
standards are meant to improve the efficiency and
effectiveness of the nation's health care system by
encouraging the widespread use of electronic data
interchange in the U.S. health care system
3. Follow rules
• When a patient arrives to • If it is found that there
our facility there are put are staff looking up or
under care of the staff into patients information
here that will deal with and you are not dealing
her every day so if you with or taking care of said
are not dealing with the patients there will be
patient we advise you not disciplinary actions taken.
to look in there charts
look up there names or
even visit them
depending on there
status.
4. IT Monitoring
• IT will be monitoring all of Every one will have a form
the computer systems at that lets us know where
all times looking for any they were assigned for
thing suspicious. the day and what patients
they had and if it is found
that a staff member was
in a patients information
that did not belong they
will be dismissed from the
position.
![Privacy act
• The Health Insurance Portability and Accountability • After reading the policy and act you can see that it
Act of 1996 (HIPAA; Pub.L. 104–191, is not right to look act or share patient information
110 Stat. 1936, enacted August 21, 1996) was no matter what.
enacted by the United States Congress and signed by
President Bill Clinton in 1996. It was sponsored by
Sen. Nancy Kassebaum (R-Kan.).[1] Title I of HIPAA
protects health insurance coverage for workers and
their families when they change or lose their jobs.
Title II of HIPAA, known as the Administrative
Simplification (AS) provisions, requires the
establishment of national standards for electronic
health care transactions and national identifiers for
providers, health insurance plans, and employers.[2]
• This act gives the right to privacy to individuals
from age 12 through 18. The provider must have a
signed disclosure form the affected before giving out
any information on provided health care to anyone,
including parents.[3][4]
• The administrative simplification provisions also
address the security and privacy of health data. The
standards are meant to improve the efficiency and
effectiveness of the nation's health care system by
encouraging the widespread use of electronic data
interchange in the U.S. health care system](data:image/gif;base64,R0lGODlhAQABAIAAAAAAAP///yH5BAEAAAAALAAAAAABAAEAAAIBRAA7)