HEALTH INFORMATION DATABASE SECURITY.

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HEALTH INFORMATION DATABASE SECURITY1
The HIPAA Rules for the database security is primarily applied to the fields of health
plans, clearing houses of healthcare as well as any provider of healthcare that associates the
transmission of the data regarding the health sector into digital format in accordance to the
HHS Secretary under the adopted standards of HIPAA. The HIPAA rules adheres the security
of the information that are present in the fields of HealthCare (Moore & Frye, 2019). The
Health and Human Services of United States identifies a set of healthcare providers, which
includes the information records in association with the health data, the HIPAA Compliance
is said to be an important fact regarding the stated security of the data as well as the
information associated with the health systems. With the help of this electronic methodology
that is used for the storage of health information the efficiency as well as mobility of the
information is assured in respect to the risk issues that is related to the field of healthcare.
The security compliance rule associated with the Healthcare Information it is depicted
as the privacy regarding the information that is adhered within the healthcare fields of an
organization. The security laws of HIPAA mainly possess two objectives. The first one being
the assurance of the individuals to be capable for maintaining the insurance of health within
the jobs and the second one being the security as well as confidentiality regarding the patient
information as well as data (Chen & Benusa, 2017). This security rules tends to establish a set
of national security standards regarding the protection of the health information in a digital
format.
The violation of the HIPAA rules are quite costly for an organization associated with
the health information systems. The approximate penalties regarding the violation of the non-
compliance based on the negligence level may be about $100 to a maximum of $50,000 for
each violation. In accordance to this, the maximum penalty regarding the data violation
within the environment of the healthcare field is depicted to be a maximum of $1.5 million
per year. Moreover, it can also be analysed that this type of violations can result to criminal