HLST 2040 Chapter Notes - Chapter 8: Digital Signature, Health Insurance Portability And Accountability Act, Electronic Signature
15 Jun 2017
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The health insurance portability and accountability act passed in 1996. The original intent was to direct how patient data was used and made available when patients switched physicians or insurers, and included two major rules covering privacy and security of that data. A number of organizations do not have to follow hipaa law despite using personal health. Information (phi): life insurers, employers, workers compensation carriers, many schools and school districts, many state agencies like child protective service agencies, many law enforcement agencies. The privacy rule strictly limits how a covered entity and their business associates can use patient data, but there is a method that can be employed to use and release the data without restrictions. The privacy rule mandates that organizations de-identify the data by removing 18 identifiers, which reasonably precludes the resulting information from being attributed to a patient.
