Question

1.Describe a situation where HIPAA was violated at the workplace?
2.What could be done to prevent this from happening again?

Answer 1

HIPAA means the health portability and accountability act is a landmark piece of legislation that was introduced to simplify the administration of health care fraud also to ensure that employees healthcare.

# Examples

Employee health information is given to employers without consent from employee.

This is violation of HIPAA .health information from past ,present and also future information of employees should not give to others without consent or without their knowledge.

# Some other examples

• Distribution of unauthorized information.
• Releasing the wrong patient information.
• Fsilure of accurate information to the employee

2 How to prevent HIPAA violation.

• By giving proper training to employees
• By creating a clear set of HIPAA policies and procedures.
• establish a privacy officer in HR office for complaints and provide information.
• Conduct regular HIPAA SECURITY RISK ASSESSMENT to detect risk of violation.
• Disclose password or login credentials
• Share e phi on social media's
• Avoid portabiles machine or file unattended.
• Assess your own medical records.
• Assess patient record out of curiosity..
• Recheck the files before share to other.
• Dispose of paper properly.
• Use social media carefully .
• Correct stored files.

By using aof all these can try to prevent violation of HIPAA in workplace.