Medical Laws and Ethics Class
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Medical Laws and Ethics Class
HIPPA is the Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act. The Act’s primary purposes are; to ensure no fraud or abuse in healthcare services, facilitate insurance portability for pre-existing medical conditions, and enforce the standard information required in medical practices. The Act provides guidelines and procedures that are required in medical administration. Failure to comply with the guidelines results in legal formalities, as discussed below.
HIPPA formulates controls that set boundaries that health care records and the patient’s health information cannot be disclosed regarding the patient’s care delivery. In concern, Professional facilitates their staff with policies agreements that patients voluntary consents for their information disclosure. Despite the professionals’ compliances, HIPPA extends to prohibiting disclosure, even within professionals themselves, thus complicating their working conditions: the material facts health information is essential to be enhanced among health care providers who attend to the same patients (Berwick & Gaines, 2018). They help effectively administer the appropriate medication that best fits the patients and expands learning in the medical platform.
One of the violating examples is when a medical transcriptionist accidentally sends a patient’s information to a wrong doctor; he copy-pasted the information from one system to another system accessed to the wrong patient. The case concerns matters of an infectious disease outbreak. After an internal review, the disclosure results in a breach of notification; therefore, a complaint file must be filed with the Health and Human Services Office of Civil Rights (OCR).
The breach of Notification Document
November 12, 2020
James Doe
120 Main St.
Dear Health and Human Service Officer
I am writing to report a breach of notification in the General hospital, from 8.30 am, to 9.40 am, on November 12, 2020. The breach occurred as follows:
Description: The organizational medical transcriptionist accidentally sent information to the wrong doctor, and consecutively, it was accessed by the wrong patient.
Type of Protected Health Information: Health data for infectious diseases.
Mitigation: The organization is currently undertaking a compliance plan that aims to facilitate data security by providing specifications for patients’ data access, such as using specific logins granted to specified staff. The organization has also noticed a breach to the affected patient with adequate measures for their health security.
Sincerely,
General Hospital Representative
References
Berwick, D. M., & Gaines, M. E. (2018). How HIPAA harms care, and how to stop it. JAMA, 320(3), 229. https://doi.org/10.1001/jama.2018.8829