Deliverable 5

Deliverable 5

Deliverable 5 – Health Reform and Patient Confidentiality Literature Review
-Competency
Evaluate the laws that govern the management of patient health information.
Scenario
You are the chief privacy officer for a health system. Your responsibilities include developing, guiding, and assisting with the overall Privacy and HIPAA policies and procedures for departments that store, process, and transmit protected health information. You have been asked to review the health system’s current policies and procedures on HIPAA. As a best practice, your first plan of action is to review the current literature on recent health policy developments (i.e., health reform) and the impact of those developments on HIPAA. The literature review will assist in ensuring that the policies and procedures are updated and remain in compliance with privacy guidelines.
Instructions
For this task, you will need to conduct a literature review of current developments in healthcare that impact HIPAA legislation and the application of privacy rules. You will need to review a minimum of 5 scholarly journal articles published within the past 10 years.

Solution Preview

Since its inception in 1996, the Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act (HIPAA) has contributed to the stabilization of the healthcare provider. HIPAA not only reduces fraud and abuse by health insurance providers but also ensures the protection of patient’s health information from researches and all entities involved in the transmission and handling of such private data. Since its inception, HIPAA has continually undergone upgrades all health systems with departments that store, process,

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