Ethical Healthcare Issue Paper
The primary purpose of this paper is to show how important health care laws, regulations and policies throughout the years have impacted health care.
Identify Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act (HIPAA) According to "Business Dictionary.com" (2015), Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act (HIPAA), has “Provided protection for patients from medical personnel decisions to disclose medical and financial information to third parties.” This act was designed to regulate patient identity theft and insurance fraud.”
Influence
With the passing of Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act (HIPAA) in 1996, Congress addressed many issues pertaining to health care coverage, security, fraud and privacy
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With the increasing amount of electronical capabilities Congress realized that there could be potential risk for compromises. Risk like stolen electronic health information, electronic files being lost and health information sent to wrong offices. These are just a few reasons why the Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act were established.
Impact of Health Insurance Portability and Accountability
With the passing of the Health Insurance Portability and Accountability (HIPAA) act patients began to have more control over their health information. The law allowed choices on how individual health information is used and it gives patients the right to know the disclosures that have been made on their health information.
HIPAA sets boundaries for the use and release of health records for all patients; it even establishes appropriate safeguards when hospitals, clinics or even doctors’ offices transfer patient information by electronic devices.
Patient Protection and Affordable Care