The Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act, (HIPAA) was passed to improve the portability and continuity of health-care coverage. It also aims to combat abuse, fraud, and waste, fraud in both health-care insurance and health-care delivery. As such, the act aims to boost the effectiveness and efficiency of health-care delivery through a national framework for health privacy protection. Through the HIPAA set guidelines, GAH should work to simplify the health insurance administration and improve the care services and coverage. Additionally, it should protect and enhance the patient rights through a provision of access to health information as well as a control of the inappropriate use or disclosure of that information. GAH should also ensure that it improves the quality of health care through a restoration of trust in the health-care system among healthcare stakeholders. GAH should follow HIPAA guidelines and provide healthcare coverage to its employees as they start their new jobs with the organization. As healthcare provides aim to work the newly created GAH, they will have security that they would not lose their healthcare coverage and thus carry their existing plans with them to the new jobs at GAH. However, the workers will be in a position to purchase health insurance on their …show more content…
As contained in the privacy policy, GAH cannot interfere with the delivery of quality healthcare or access to healthcare by patients. Therefore, the personal medical records and health information is protected by the HIPAA. GAH will thus provide patients with more control over their health information as well as using and releasing health-care records. Under HIPAA, use restricts healthcare organizations from sharing information within a covered entity, while disclosure constrains the sharing of information outside the entity holding the