When someone has the private information of another person, that person loses some control. This power perspective shines light on the intense conflict that associates with the flow of health information. Recent Federal regulation authorizes certain behaviors by healthcare divisions regarding the flow of health information. This book describes how healthcare entities are fulfilling those regulations.
The Privacy Rule, called HIPAA (Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act of 1996), gives the patient strong rights over his or her information, and it requires healthcare entities to rearrange their ways of communicating and establishing efficient privacy controls. It provides laws to protect workers who leave their jobs from losing their ability to be covered by health insurance (portability), and to protect the integrity, confidentiality, and availability of electronic health information (accountability). HIPAA's requirements are meant to encourage healthcare organizations to move patient information handling activities from manual to electronic systems in order to improve security, lower costs, and lower the error rate. There are four main parts of this drug regulation: rule, implement, manuals, and government. .
The history up to the current status of the regulations of HIPAA required an in-depth and lengthy process to finalize each set of rules in order for it to reach a consensus of the final rule before it became a federal law. .
The Secretary of Health and Human Services (HHS) was directed by Congress to adopt standards for HIPAA. They are who is responsible for developing these regulations. First, each rule was approved from the government. Then, the public was allowed to comment on the proposal. Those comments were analyzed and considered in developing each final rule. The Final Rule for Transaction and Code Set Standards was published in the Federal Register on August 17, 2000.
