HIPAA and Healthcare Informatics: An Analysis of Security Issues
This eight-page graduate paper examines HIPAA and Healthcare Informatics in terms of security issues. The author notes that through its security rules, HIPAA requires doctors, pharmacies, health plans, and other involved parties to establish policy and procedure safeguards in order to protect the confidentiality of private health information about their patients. Ultimately, covered participants must ensure all of these protections for patients cited above, and are held responsible as well for providing public notice of their privacy practices which limit the use and disclosure of information. But while HIPAA was created with the best of intentions, actual execution is proving difficult, for even though HIPAA was written to streamline operations and increase efficiency, experience is revealing that adhering to the rules is at times hard to accomplish during the implementation process.
