Health Information Security Essay

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In this week learning, we explored the ethical challenges and benefit of implementing security standards and health IT privacy. I am delighted to gain new-found insight of the importance, objective, and goals of federal legislation (HIPPA, HITECH Act) and its curators in terms of combating health information breaches and protecting health information. The Privacy Rule, a Federal law, give a patient right over his/her health information and sets rules and limits on who can look at and receive his/her health information (HHS.gov, Health Information Privacy). Health IT Privacy and Security Standards are essential in health care; It fosters the role of standardization and maintenance while protecting vital health information. Health privacy standards promote confidentiality by safeguarding (administrative, physical and technical) medical information. Safeguarding patient information must be of high-level priority to all health professional considering the potential for adverse consequences that may occur as a result…show more content…
As one assess the health IT environment, we must think about situations that may lead to unauthorized access, use, disruption, disclosure, modification or destruction of electronic health information (HHS.gov, Reassessing your security practices in a health IT environment). When assessing the security of a health IT system, a number of factors must be taken into consideration. Perhaps most important among them are encryption standards and passwords. The complexity and integrity of these systems are the first defense against prying eyes, and any faults in them may seriously compromise database security. Strength and implementation of both of these are federally regulated, being explicitly outlined in the Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act. HIMSS provides a number of toolkits for testing and verifying health security system

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