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Privacy and Health Information, 2002.
Examines Canada's policy regarding privacy and health information.
1,900 words (approx. 7.6 pages), 13 sources, $ 71.95
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The topic of this paper will be privacy issues in Canada. It will focus on the province of Ontario and the topic of health information. This paper examines the government's policy on privacy of health information.
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Health Information Portability Accounting Act (HIPAA), 2005.
This paper discusses the impact Health Information Portability Accounting Act (HIPPA) has had on employers and on the confidentiality of health information.
1,900 words (approx. 7.6 pages), 5 sources, APA, $ 60.95
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This paper explains that the Health Information Portability Accounting Act (HIPAA) creates federally mandated requirements regarding protected health information (PHI) that can impact any employer, regardless of its size, location or industry. The author points out that employers who sponsor group health plans are affected depending on whether the employer (1) is fully insured or self-insured and (2) creates or receives Protected Health Information, defined to include all individually identifiable health information held or transmitted by a covered entity or business associate electronically or in other forms with the exceptions (a) that the Privacy Rules do not apply to employment records, including medical information employers use to comply with various disability laws, such as American Disabilities Act (ADA), and workers' compensation, or to administer workplace disability policies or substance abuse rules and (b) health information useful to the employer in administering their health plan. The paper relates that the act allows adolescents access to confidential care for contraception and sexually transmitted diseases and other services.
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Introduction
HIPPA Privacy Rules
HIPPA Compliance and Employers
HIPPA and Consumers
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"In connection with implementing a compliance program, group health plans are exempt from these requirements if they provide health benefits solely through an insurance contract with a health insurance issuer or an HMO and they do not create or receive PHI except for summary health information, or information regarding the status of an individual's enrollment, or disenrollment from the HMO or health insurance issuer. It is important to note that employers must consider their activities not only in the context of use and disclosure of PHI between the group health plan and the plan sponsor, but also in the context of any disclosures of PHI to a third party. A disclosure from the group health plan to a third party administrator would require adequate assurances of confidentiality, and would require a business associate agreement under the Privacy Rule before PHI could be disclosed."
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The Health Information Portability Accounting Act (HIPAA), 2005.
This paper discusses the Health Information Portability Accounting Act (HIPAA), which went into effect the first quarter of 2003.
1,540 words (approx. 6.2 pages), 3 sources, APA, $ 50.95
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This paper explains that the Health Information Portability Accounting Act (HIPAA) creates federally mandated requirements regarding protected health information (PHI) that can impact any employer regardless of its size, location or industry. The author points out four components of the Privacy Rules: (1) Use and disclosure rules, (2) privacy practices notice, (3) individual rights provisions that preserve the individuals right to access and amend the information, obtain an accounting of disclosure and secure additional protections and (4) administrative requirements. The paper stresses that employers must be aware that noncompliance with the Privacy Rule requirements carries rigorous fines and criminal penalties for a knowing violation and for a violation with intent to sell, transfer or use PHI for commercial gain.
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"The healthcare industry is familiar with the Privacy Rule HIPAA Act; however, many outside the industry are not necessarily aware of the significant impact that the Privacy Rule may have on them. All employers that provides healthcare coverage to its employees, either through a fully insured or self-insured health plan, is affected by the Privacy Rule and must comply with the Rule. The U.S. Department of Health and Human Services ("HHS") is not authorized to regulate employers directly, however employers are regulated under the Privacy Rule indirectly, through the group health plans that they establish. A group health plan is considered a "covered entity", and is therefore directly regulated unless it is a small, self-administered plan with less than 50 participants. Many group health plans are contractual entities with no independent assets."
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Releasing Health Care Information, 2004.
This paper discusses the administrative, ethical, and legal aspects of releasing health care information.
900 words (approx. 3.6 pages), 3 sources, APA, $ 31.95
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This paper explains that the entire health care system in the United States is predicated on a well-established system of careful control of medical information that is afforded the highest degree of privacy and privilege. The author points out that the release of information pertains to all medical information with a personal identifier on a document of any sort, which can take the form of traditional paper-based medical records and forms, digital output stored in a hospital?s mainframe or a clinician?s desktop, and X-rays and their interpretations that are subject to release of information privacy protections. The paper concludes that, notwithstanding the ethical considerations involved, failure to exercise adequate security of such personal medical information or to comply with requests for information should carry serious consequences.
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Objectives
Background and Overview of Release of Information
Types, Uses and Purposes of Release of Information Documentation
Legal and Ethical Considerations and Potential Consequences
Review, Summary and Conclusion
Controlling Federal and Colorado State Law
Explanation of Health Information Policy/Procedure Specific to Release of Information
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"Under HIPAA, all patients have the right to inspect, copy, and amend their health-care information; authorize or refuse to authorize its use; and receive a formal accounting of how their information is used. Infrastructural barriers must be used to block unauthorized access to a patient's medical data. The rule provides for civil monetary penalties of up to $25,000 for each standard violation as well as criminal penalties of up to 10 years imprisonment and/or a fine of up to $250,000. (104) The federal law represents a floor of protection for medical data; stricter state laws are not preempted. In addition to these, many other federal statutes may interact with HIPAA's privacy provisions."
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Ensuring Privacy in the Health Care Environment, 2004.
Research proposal regarding the proper implementation of information policy in the health care environment.
1,600 words (approx. 6.4 pages), 10 sources, APA, $ 52.95
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This paper proposes to examine the problems associated with the expanded use of electronic medical records. The paper is a research proposal with the intention of examining the need for a policy that will ensure the privacy of sensitive and personal medical information. The paper proposes to answer the question about what important areas in the design of medical computer systems will provide the optimal combination of efficiency, effectiveness, and security, while protecting patient privacy in an ethical manner.
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"There are several important factors to consider when answering this question. Most people insured in the United States are covered by HMOs, with the most popular ones being Blue Cross/Blue Shield affiliates. These organizations are seldom limited to a state but often cover regions (for instance, Empire Blue Cross Blue Shield is usually used by employers in New York to cover employees in New York, New Jersey and Conneticut.) The maintenance of medical records must comply with the legal specifications of each state, and many records are still maintained on mainframe-based computer systems. However, due to the commonality of job transfers and the regular migration of health care recipients from region to region, many companies are transitioning their operations departments to SQL-databases that can be accessed via a Wide Area Network. This process is both done in-house and out-sourced to technology firms that routinely service banks and companies with large and differentiated inventories. However, Insurers prefer to manage their systems in-house so as to limit liability in the case of error. As of yet, there is no universally standardized record keeping due to differences in legal requirements."
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Health Privacy and Confidentiality, 2008.
A discussion of the Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act that provides protection for patients' health information.
1,007 words (approx. 4.0 pages), 2 sources, APA, $ 35.95
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The paper looks at the Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act of 1996 (HIPAA), which is intended to protect the client or patient's health information from being used inappropriately. The paper explains how the right to privacy for a patient or client is an important aspect of health care. The paper also discusses how the exchange of information is not a simple process, but if done legally and correctly, it will keep a person's health information safe.
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"Our wellness, both physical and mental, is dependant upon our health information to be available and to be viewed or reviewed by the necessary individuals or groups involved in our health care. When health information is used appropriately, it promotes trust from the client or patient. Appropriate use of health information is also an important factor in the quality and standard of care from health organizations. Unfortunately, this has not always been the case and the honor system failed, because of cases or incidents where health information was mishandled, the government stepped in to create and put into legislation the Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act of 1996(United States Department of Health & Human Services [USDHHS], 2007, 1), otherwise known to many in the health field as HIPAA."
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The Role of Privacy in Healthcare Information Systems Technology, 2001.
An analysis of how the development of information systems in health care poses a new challenge for the protection of privacy.
6,600 words (approx. 26.4 pages), 14 sources, MLA, $ 151.95
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This extensive study explores how computerization of health care information, while offering new, viable opportunities to improve and streamline the health care delivery system, also presents new challenges to individual privacy interests in personal health care data. It also shows that technical and organizational capabilities to secure and maintain confidentiality in data, must work in tandem with legislation to preserve those privacy interests while making appropriate information available for approved uses.
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"Concerns over the privacy and security of electronic health information fall into two general categories: concerns about inappropriate releases of information from individual organizations; and concerns about the systemic flows of information throughout the health care and related industries. Inappropriate releases from organizations could result either from authorized users who intentionally or unintentionally access or disseminate information in violation of organizational policy, or from outsiders who break into an organization's computer system. The second category--systemic concerns--refers to the open disclosure of patient-identifiable health information to parties that may act against the interests of the specific patient or may otherwise be perceived as invading a patient's privacy. These concerns arise from the many flows of data across the health care system, between and among providers, payers, and secondary users, with or without the knowledge of the patient. These two categories of concerns are conceptually quite different requiring different interventions or countermeasures (?For the Record,? 1997, 54). "
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"Information Privacy", 2002.
A discussion of the Heiser's 1999 online article "Information Privacy" about the relation between new information technologies and concepts of "privacy".
1,400 words (approx. 5.6 pages), 5 sources, $ 53.95
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This paper provides a critical assessment of North American assumptions of "privacy" and the "right to privacy" which is, in fact, not regarded as a constitutional or legal right, but is embedded as an assumption that is inextricable from assumptions of privilege and wealth. This essay is a critique of the concept of "privacy" and a positive analysis of Heiser's article on issues of privacy in a global context.
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The Role of Privacy in Healthcare Information Systems Technology, 2001.
This paper examines today's new Healthcare Information Systems Technology and how they affect the patient's privacy.
6,450 words (approx. 25.8 pages), 12 sources, MLA, $ 149.95
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This paper discusses privacy and today's growing information systems technology in all fields, specifically on healthcare. Computerization of health care information, while offering new, viable opportunities to improve and streamline the health care delivery system, the author finds, also presents new challenges to individual privacy interests in personal health care data. He feels that technical and organizational capabilities to secure and maintain confidentiality in data must work in tandem with legislation to preserve those privacy interests while making appropriate information available for approved uses.
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"Concerns over the privacy and security of electronic health information fall into two general categories: concerns about inappropriate releases of information from individual organizations; and concerns about the systemic flows of information throughout the health care and related industries. Inappropriate releases from organizations could result either from authorized users who intentionally or unintentionally access or disseminate information in violation of organizational policy, or from outsiders who break into an organization's computer system. The second category--systemic concerns--refers to the open disclosure of patient-identifiable health information to parties that may act against the interests of the specific patient or may otherwise be perceived as invading a patient's privacy. These concerns arise from the many flows of data across the health care system, between and among providers, payers, and secondary users, with or without the knowledge of the patient. These two categories of concerns are conceptually quite different requiring different interventions or countermeasures (?For the Record,? 1997, 54)."
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Privacy and Information Technology, 2001.
A descriptive paper of legal issues, privacy issues and policies relating to information technology.
3,067 words (approx. 12.3 pages), 8 sources, APA, $ 89.95
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Scholars in the area of ethics have long sought the answer to the idea of privacy as one's right to be left alone. This paper asks questions such as: Is it a person's right to decide who gets his or her personal information? Does a company have the right to sell a person's private information to a third party without consent? This paper examines some aspects of privacy such as policies and the practice of said policies, fraudulent use of identification and the censorship of privacy.
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The Origins of Privacy
Privacy Policies vs. Practice
ID Fraud by Hackers
Censorship and Privacy
Conclusion
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"Maintaining privacy while online is considered to be one of the biggest worries of Internet users. So, in order to decrease the concerns of privacy invasion among consumers online, privacy policies were created. What exactly are privacy policies? Privacy policies are policies designed to protect the privacy of people online who are visiting a company or an organization?s web site. Privacy policies are usually posted for web sites in which users are purchasing products because personal information is collected. Privacy policies are not generally required for informational web sites. There is a big debate about company privacy policies. Do these policies really protect our privacy? Many say that there is no such thing as online privacy and that these policies do very little to insure secrecy."
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Information Goods and Privacy, 2002.
Examines the economics of information goods and its implications in the area of privacy policy.
650 words (approx. 2.6 pages), 2 sources, $ 26.95
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This paper will argue that privacy will increasingly become a thing of the past given that no one - whether government or business - has any interest in the preservation of privacy. The rise of the information economy will inevitably mean that personal information becomes another good to be traded, without any benefit to the individual concerned.
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Information, Privacy and Computer Technology, 2002.
Discussion of the invasion of one's privacy and the divulgence of personal information made possible by computer technology.
1,650 words (approx. 6.6 pages), 6 sources, $ 62.95
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The advent of computers and their phenomenal ability to store and process data was initially welcomed. However, recently concerns about privacy, the divulgence of personal information and other concerns have arisen with the downside of this newfound capability. This paper focuses on these issues and includes hyperlinks to Websites relating to computer privacy and personal data.
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Privacy in the Information Age, 2004.
Discusses the concept of privacy in today's technological world.
834 words (approx. 3.3 pages), 2 sources, MLA, $ 29.95
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In today's information age, a combination of satellite and computer technology creates a large number of privacy problems, rather than providing the security they are promoted for. The paper shows that the biggest privacy problems are experienced in terms of public privacy and privacy in terms of the Internet. In the information age ,the right "to be alone" has to be respected in terms of computer technology, as well. The paper discusses, specifically, two problems arising from the information age: Internet privacy and electronic surveillance.
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"Further surveillance occurs in the workplace, where e-mail could be intercepted, and Internet use could be monitored. As far as this is in the interest of the workplace paradigm, the employers are within their rights. Surveillance in the workplace could also be conducted by means of electronic cameras and telephone apparatus. Often this is done without employee awareness, and this is unacceptable. Employees should in all cases be made aware of any surveillance conducted in the workplace, and of all justifications for such surveillance."
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Privacy Issues, 2002.
Focuses on the topic of privacy as it relates to health information held on computer databases.
1,400 words (approx. 5.6 pages), 6 sources, $ 53.95
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The topic of this paper is privacy issues. It focuses on the province of Ontario and the topic of health information. Through the Ontario Hospital Insurance Plan the Ontario government has health information on everyone. Since the IT revolution that information is held in computer databases.
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Privacy Protection Policies in Health Care, 2008.
A case study analysis of the United States Privacy Act and its subsequent revisions and the Healthcare Information Privacy Protection Act (HIPPA).
1,724 words (approx. 6.9 pages), 11 sources, APA, $ 55.95
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This paper presents a case study relating to privacy issues in the medical and healthcare field. It aims to design an executive level privacy protection policy and considers both the legal regulations applicable to a company's privacy issues and the company's particular privacy needs. The paper specifically examines the application of the United States Privacy Act and its subsequent revisions and the Healthcare Information Privacy Protection Act (HIPPA).
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"Clearly, the Privacy Act, originally intended to apply only to government agencies, now applies to such non-governmental entities as the healthcare system and commercial businesses. What can be concluded from this expansion of the Act's jurisdiction is that, because of the Act, individuals now have an expectation of personal privacy. In order to ensure this expectation is met, all customer-related organizations must take steps, per the Privacy Act, to protect an individual's personal privacy. (Douglas-Steward: 2001)."
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