Hipaa Statues Information 2022

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HIPAA Statutes and Rules
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HIPAA STATUTES 2
Introduction
HIPAA requires that, the department for HHS (Health and Human Services) should
create the regulations for the protection of security and health information privacy. In order to
fulfill its mandate, the HHS creates both the HIPAA security and privacy rules (Cohen and
Mello, 2018).
HIPAA 1996 is the federal law which sets standards on the way in which the health care,
health care clearinghouses, health plan and health care providers should protect the privacy of
their patient’s information (Cohen and Mello, 2018).
Links of different HIPAA rules
. Privacy rule therefore covers the patient information and those intentional disclosure of
such information. On the security Rule, its application is on the Protection of Health Information
which are transmitted or stored electronically therefore it must have safeguards for the purpose
of prevention of the unintended disclosure of the EHI.While the Breach Notification Rule is
responsible for the determination of the theft or loss of the PHI that require to notify patients
who are affected.
The National Provider-Identifier Standard
The National Provider-Identifier Standard is a specific number for the identification
covering those who are providing services in the health care. It is a series of numbers with 10
digits, due to its property of being intelligence identifier every health care worker or provider
should use it in their financial transactions and administrative works. It is a mandatory to be used
in relation to the identifiers provided in the HIPAA standards of transactions (Gerald et al, 2013).

HIPAA STATUTES 3
Features of the Health Information Systems
The HIS (Health information system) over the time has been used for the collection,
storing, processing and the transfer of the needed information for the decision-making and
planning at different levels in the health sector for the purpose of ensuring quality services
(Wager,2017). For a high-quality HIS to be achieved, the primary health care should be
investigated to know the challenges and the barriers they can bring to the institution. The HIPAA
transactions is of importance in every health care as it simplifies the processes and reducing the
cost which are associated with the payment of the health care services and its application is
limited to those that are transmitted electronically (Berwick and Gaines,2018).
Safeguard in the HIPAA Security Rule
One of the safeguards in the health sector is the administrative safeguards which deals
with the procedures, policies, and actions for the management of the selection, implementation,
development and maintenance of the security measures for the protection of the health
information electronically. It implement the policies which aim to prevent, correct, contain, and
detect the security violations. If the health professionals knows the safeguards of the clients, it
will be of ease for the identification of the risk their personal information can be at within the
facility. Protocol and plans whenever the breach of information occurs within the facility can be
manageable.