Nursing Assignment: HIPAA and Personal Information Protection

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Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act (HIPAA), P.L. 104-191 was passed
by the Congress in 1996. This Act was named after the two legislators that sponsored it,
Kennedy-Kassebaum Act (Peter & Micelle, 2019). The Act was widened to include the Privacy
Rule in 2003. Health facilities are required to abide by this Act when engaging patients. The
patients relay personal information in the process of seeking treatment or counseling
interventions (Rothstein, 2013)). Federal law protects personal information from being used in a
fraudulent and abusive manner. The Midwest OB-Gyne Affiliates is a new health facility that
shall be dealing with at least six patients in a day. The information of the patients should be
maintained in accordance with the HIPAA to avoid civil and criminal violations of the law. This
paper discusses the requirements and the responsibilities charged to Midwest OB-Gyne Affiliates
by the HIPAA in reference to the protection of personal information.
HIPAA Titles and the Privacy Rule
Title I covers the Health Care Access, how to renew it and its Portability. It protects
families that have lost their jobs from losing the insurance coverage. The Act also denies the new
health plans from not covering beneficiaries due to their pre-existing conditions (Peter &
Micelle, 2019). Title II is aimed at preventing fraud and abuse in Health Care. Administrative
simplification requires that national standards be put in place to protect electronic information on
the transactions that the care providers undertake (Peter & Micelle, 2019). Title III covers the
Tax Health Provisions guiding the Medical Savings Accounts. The Health facilities should put a
standard amount per every Medical Savings Account which can be saved (Peter & Micelle,
2019).

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Title IV governs the Group Health Insurance requirements and the procedures for
application. The conditions are specified in this title that is covered under the pre-existing
conditions for applicants (Peter & Micelle, 2019). Title V deals with offsetting of revenues when
taxing employees. This Title makes Public record of a list of the Ex-citizens that have made the
decision of expatriation in a Quarterly Publication of Individuals Who Have Chosen to
Expatriate (Peter & Micelle, 2019). The Title also makes amendments to the law governing the
people that forfeit US citizenship in order to obtain tax advantages.
Can Midwest OB-Gyne Affiliates give a video of ultrasounds to their patients?
The Midwest OB-Gyne Affiliates can give the patients the video of the ultrasounds. The
Privacy Rue allows the Covered Entities to provide the Personal Information to the individuals
that require it. The patients can also request for the information at any time through formal or
informal ways and can access it through their free consent (Harting et al., 2015). The patient who
requires a copy of the data or wants to inspect it is protected by the Privacy Rule to access it. The
Disclosure, however, is exceptional to cases that the records kept by the Midwest OB-Gyne
Affiliates Health Facility are for Civil, Criminal and/or Administrative reasons (Harting et al.,
2015). The patient is also prohibited from accessing the records if it is endangering their lives.
Faxing of prenatal records to the delivery room and the Minimum Disclosure
Standard
The Covered Entities are obligated to limit the disclosure of any information concerning
the health of an individual. The disclosure should be for the purposes of use in treatment only.
The Faxing of the prenatal records of patients who are nearing the delivery time to the delivery
room is in order. This is in anticipation of the treatment of the patient during labor (El Emam, K.
(Ed.). (2013). However, the Hospital should put in measures to safeguard the information before