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Health IT Strategic Plan

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Concerning the policy and regulation, the Federal Health IT Strategic Plan 2015-2020 (Plan) explains how the federal government intends to apply the effective use of information and technology to help the nation achieve high-quality care, lower costs, a healthy population, and engaged individuals. This Plan focuses on advancing health information technology (health IT) innovation and use for a variety of purposes; however, the use of health IT is not in itself an end goal. (The office of the National Coorodinator for Health Information Technology, 2015)
Technology can help the patients to achieve their goals. Everyone has a role to protect a patients’ privacy and health information. According to Information Technology and HIPAA article, the …show more content…

Information is central to setting and accomplishing individual and systemic goals and improvement plans; however, information alone even when electronically generated and shared cannot improve the nation's health. It will take the collective efforts of many stakeholders using electronic health information in meaningful and effective ways, alone and in partnership with one another, to help achieve the nation's full health potential
Hospitals and physician offices across the nation have made great efforts in transitioning from paper to electronic systems and processes since the federal government released its prior health
IT strategy in 2011. This has resulted in remarkable growth in health IT adoption and use among these provider types. Additionally, hospitals across the country have achieved striking increases in electronic health information exchange. In the event of an emergency the health records are available when it is needed. For example, when a person goes to the emergency room with a heart attack, it would take few munities to get his or her records while on paper systems would take more 30 to 45 munities trying to get a patient folder. Patients have easy access to their own information so they can understand what has been done. Patients also can find any information their need on the internet before they go to see a doctor which makes them understand what is going on with their health. Technology saves time for both patients and professionals. When a patient goes to a doctor and needs to do labs, it is fast to get results which helps patient to get treated as soon as the results come

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The Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act (HIPAA) sets security standards for safeguarding important patient health information that is being stored and maintained in analog and digital forms. As new technologies continue to facilitate the healthcare industry’s transition to paperless processes, health care providers, insurance companies, and other institutions are also growing increasingly dependent on electronic information systems to manage their HIPAA compliance programs. As a result, the safety and security of sensitive health data has become a major concern across the board. Security Risks and Challenges Today, health care professionals are using technology extensively in almost every aspect of the practice.

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Healthcare providers and organizations are obligated and bound to protect patient confidentiality by laws and regulations. Patient information may only be disclosed to those directly involved in the patient’s care or those the patient identifies as able to receive the information. The HIPAA Act of 1996 is the federal law mandating healthcare organizations and clinicians to safeguard patient’s medical information. This law corresponds with the Health Information Technology for Economic and Clinical Health Act to include security standards for protecting electronic health information. The healthcare organization is legally responsible for establishing procedures to prevent data

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In her assessment of the American Reinvestment & Recovery Act (ARRA), Murphy (2009) discusses how its enactment provided unprecedented funding for the advancement of health information technology (HIT) which served to promote health care reform. Electronic health records (EHRs) by extension received a boost via incentivization for appropriate use in hospitals and ambulatory settings (Murphy, 2009). The benefits of EHRs include the ability to improve the delivery and quality of nursing care, the ability to make more timely and efficient nursing care decisions for nursing, the ability to avoid errors that might harm patients and the ability to promote health and wellness for the patients (McGonigle & Mastrian, 2015). An appropriate use of EHR

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Description of the legislation/policy Health information technology can advance the health of individuals and aid with the performance of providers to produce and improve quality and cost savings in patients’ health. In 2009, Congress passed, and former President Obama signed into law the Health Information Technology for Economic and Clinical Health (HITECH) Act, as part of the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act (Buntin, Burke, Hoaglin and Blumenthal, 2011). Authorized by the HITECH Act, the Office of the National Coordinator for Health Information Technology’s (ONC) has worked on health IT. The Health IT created legislation and regulations to provide requirements and certification criteria that the EHRs must meet to ensure health care

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Health Information Exchange Efforts Is Declining: In the article by Milstein, Lin, and Jha (2016), The distribution of health information exchange (HIE), in which clinical data are electronically aligned to patients in several different patient care settings, is a top priority for policy makers. Since 2006, the number of operational HIE efforts is down from 119 in 2012. Out of 119 only 50% are of operational efforts that reported financially viable, and all efforts reported a variety of barriers to persistence. Geographic Coverage and Provider Contribution:

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As records were shared electronically rules were implemented for clinicians to follow known as The Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act (HIPAA) of 1996 (Summary of the HIPAA Security Rule ,2013). These rules were implemented for clinicians to protect the

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Health information exchange (HIE) is an important tool for improving efficiency and quality and is required for providers to meet Meaningful Use certification from the United States Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services. However widespread adoption and use of HIE has been difficult to achieve, especially in settings such as smaller-sized physician practices and federally qualified health centers (FQHCs). There are currently three key forms of health information exchange: • Directed Exchange – ability to send and receive secure information electronically between care providers to support coordinated care • Query-based Exchange – ability for providers to find and/or request information on a patient from other providers, often used for unplanned

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Even though EHR’s are very effective and beneficial, some health organizations continue to use paper records. The reason: high costs and challenging and prolonged process of implementing (Thakkar & Davis, 2006). This paper will briefly discuss the benefits, costs, and struggles of implementing EHR systems. “The purpose of the EHR is to create a health care structure that will allow simultaneous access to patient information, and give the support to make best possible decisions” (Thakkar & Davis, 2006). EHR’s benefit patients and workers but most importantly improves the overall health system.

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It behooves me to write a policy on the proper use of the internet in healthcare, and to reach out to the patients to see what internet sites that they use for reading about their health and illnesses. It is also this nurse’s intention to review our current policy on HIPAA until there is a clear understanding of what involves violation and what does not. I agree with (Alexander et al 2015). “Healthcare providers must be knowledgeable of their own facility’s policies, and procedures regarding privacy and security.” All this will require more effort on the nurses part and, this will take a lot of paper time, but it will be well worth it because our commitment is to our

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HIPAA’s existence constituted as a necessary health care reform. This particular healthcare reform empowered patients by giving them more control and say over the handling of medical records. The HIPAA law also reshaped how health care providers handled patients’ medical records, especially concerning patient privacy (IHS, n.d.). Under the HIPAA law, the privacy rule includes the “national standards” that health care organizations must

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Importance of HIPAA in New Healthcare Digital Age Introduction The Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act or as we commonly know it HIPAA was first developed in 1996 not necessarily providing “privacy” to individuals, but rather implementing rules for individuals who may have lost their jobs or changing jobs. It was developed to help protect these individuals regarding their healthcare coverage (Bowers, 2001, para 1). Another part of HIPAA is the protection of protected health information for patients from electronic records and sharing of information among healthcare providers.

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1.2 Purpose and Value of the Research The US Congress passed the HIPAA bill in 1996, and it was signed by former president Bill Clinton in the same year. Part of the HIPAA regulations is intended to promote the use of technolgy to increase the efficiency of healthcare and also to protect patients’ privacy and rights. To improve the efficiency and effectiveness of healthcare, the HIPAA included administrative simplification provisions that require HHS to adopt national standards for electronic healthcare transactions and code sets, unique health identifiers, and privacy [5]. On February 17, 2009, The Health Information Technology for Economic and Clinical Health (HITECH) Act, enacted as part of the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act of

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• Connections to state and national health information exchange efforts • Continuous technical assistance in implementing Health IT and using it in a meaningful way to improve care (HealthIT, 2014). • Analysis of Meaningful Use

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The ability to have access to patient’s information has made it easier for the health care industry to interact with the patient, however; if everyone has access to their records it makes it difficult for health care professionals to protect vital information. As explained by Brown, 2009, one of the HIPAA standards makes it possible for individuals to have access to their health information online. This can give

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Sometimes using smart phones and social media in a healthcare setting can lead to a HIPAA violation. HIPAA, the Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act, is something that needs to be addressed with caution and attention to detail. According to the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (HHS), HIPAA was designed to advance the effectiveness and competency of the healthcare system as a whole. With growing technology, the government decided that they needed to adapt their standards to further protect private health information (Department of Human & Health Services, 2017). HHS created two HIPAA rules, the privacy rule and security rule.

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