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Describe one act, policy, or law that has shaped health information systems
Health policy refers to decision,plans,and actions that are undertaken to achieve specific health care goals within a society. An explicit health policy can achieve several things. It defines a vision for the future which in turn help to establish targets and points of reference for the short and medium term.
Health information privacy law and policy to participate is one means of ensuring that patients trust these systems. The HITECH act established ONC in law and providers the U. S department of health and human services with the authority to establish programs to improve health care quality, safety and efficiency through the promotion of health IT, including electronic health records and private and secure electronic health information exchange. National health portal is called may be as digital information security in health care act. Most health care providers must follow the health insurance portability and Accountability act (HIPPA) privacy rule. A federal privacy law that sets a baseline of protection for certain individually identifiable health information. The privacy rule generally permits but does not require, covered health care providers to give patients the choice to whether their health information may be disclosed to others for certain key purpose.
Security refers directly to protection and specifically to the means used to protect the privacy health information and support professionals in holding that information in confidence.
All who work with health information, health informatics and health information management professionals, clinicians, researchers, have responsibility to respect that information. And as patients their have privacy rights with regard to their own health information and an expectation that our information be held in confidence and protected.