What are 3 ways to ensure PHI (Protected Health Information) is kept safe?
What are 3 ways to ensure PHI (Protected Health Information) is kept safe?
What are 3 ways to ensure Protected Health Information or PHI is kept safe? Can someone please explain the physical protection, the elcetronic protection, and the positional protection techniques for a medical office and the worth of each. HELP this is a little confusing for me.
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Answer by joniboni
Appropriate physical safeguards are in place to reasonably safeguard PHI from any intentional or unintentional use or disclosure that is in violation of the HIPAA Privacy Regulations. These safeguards will include physical protection of premises and PHI, technical protection of PHI maintained electronically and administrative protection. These safeguards will extend to the oral communication of PHI. These safeguards will extend to PHI that is removed from UCAR.
Almost all electronic devices today contain microprocessors — that is, a kind of computer — from the telephone to the toaster. Although the Security Rule’s reach extends to “an[y] electronic computing device,” DHHS has clarified that it intends to include within that ambit only “software programmable computers, for example personal computers, minicomputers, and mainframes.” (Final Rule, p.54) Laptops, tablet computers, PDAs and other portable computing devices are also included, whether linked by wire, wireless connection, or “stand alone.”
The Privacy Rule protects certain information that covered entities use and disclose. This information is called protected health information (PHI), which is generally individually identifiable health information that is transmitted by, or maintained in, electronic media or any other form or medium. This information must relate to 1) the past, present, or future physical or mental health, or condition of an individual; 2) provision of health care to an individual; or 3) payment for the provision of health care to an individual. If the information identifies or provides a reasonable basis to believe it can be used to identify an individual, it is considered individually identifiable health information.
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http://www.dcf.state.fl.us/hipaa/faq2.shtml
Quality assessment and improvement activities, including outcomes evaluation and development of clinical guidelines
Case management and care coordination
Training future health care professionals (students and residents)
Business planning and development
Business management activities
General administrative and business functions
In healthcare, the ability “to use the information that has been exchanged” means not only that healthcare systems must be able to communicate with one another, but also that they must employ shared terminology and definitions. This latter emphasis places a much greater burden upon system designers and electronic engineers to make the information truly usable in the distributed clinical setting of our health care environment. NHIN should be identified as a key asset of the nation’s health care critical infrastructure, and this should be taken into account while developing requirements.
This means that the health care systems must be set up using standards for the language used by the computers, the language used for documenting diseases and a universal language for the documents and labs. Full separability.
http://www.ieeeusa.org/policy/POSITIONS/NHINinteroperability.html
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