Question

Submit a research paper based on a law or compliance standard in the medical field where you must apply ethical standards to safeguard protected health information.

In the research paper, you should provide at least two workplace scenarios in which this law or standard must be applied.

In these scenarios, you will provide recommendations for protecting health information.

Answer 1

US health care system focus on confidentiality, privacy, and security followed by HIPAA law. As a health care professional in the hospitals confidentiality, privacy, security of the patient, and provider relationship help to keep health information confidential, and it helps to follow the code of ethics. in the field of psychotherapy confidence and trust, appropriate treatment for the patient suffering from mental and emotional problems with sensitive health information needs special confidentiality. under legal proceeding access, use, and disclosure of confidential patient information are important. Privacy reflects the patient's right to make decisions about how personal information is shared. right to privacy respect the individual health care decisions and health information. federal and state laws emphasize the professional code of ethics. security protects personal information from breaches. address technical and administrative safeguards to protect the individual information. appropriate use of the EHR system supports billing through the transmission of health data. In the workplace, HIPAA privacy rule training, performing HIPAA covered transactions, written authorization from the patient when covered entities seek to use the health information, data backups security protect the information, and suspected HIPAA violation reported to organization compliance officers.