Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act of 1996 (HIPAA) is United States legislation that provides data privacy and security provisions for safeguarding medical information. No one is completely perfect but we do have to be really careful with how in the medical field we take care of the medical record or any other information that should not be given. All that information must be kept private unless the patient of the information gives any authorization for it to be release. Even the most important hospitals or well-known physicians have or been involved with a HIPAA violation.
In order to make a spreadsheet for over 20,000 patients who were all seen in the emergency room in 2009, Stanford contracted Multi-Specialty Collection Services (MSCS) who would be in charge of creating the spreadsheet for them. This spreadsheet contained patient’s names, diagnoses numbers, admission and discharge dates, and billing
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Going in to medical field, I feel like we all have to have the precaution of not sharing information with coworkers, friends or even family. I feel like whatever happens at work stay at work and that the privacy of my patients will remain private because no one should face the fear of someone knowing everything about them, maybe there are things that they want to keep private and that will be our job. To help them keep their medical record in private, to make sure that everything they say and every test we perform on them is going to be between them and the doctors, nurses and medical assistants in the case. I feel like it is part of my duty as a medical assistant to help protect every single person that walks into the hospital or clinic that I will work in. I will follow the HIPPA law and ensure the privacy of my patients and everyone who walks through those doors in the hospital or clinic that I will work