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1.Hello Classmates,

Covered entities such as health plans, HMOs, Medicare, and Medicaid have abided by HIPPA. The Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act of 1996 also known as HIPPA is a federal law that required the creation of national standards to protect sensitive patient health information from being disclosed without the patient’s consent or knowledge. HIPPA protects a individuals identifiable health information. There are many major requirements of HIPPA security rule such as: Ensuring the confidentiality, integrity, and availability, Identifying, and protecting against anticipated threats towards security of information, protecting against impermissible uses and disclosures and ensuring compliance by their workforce.

2.HIPAA addresses nearly all the healthcare in U.S. HIPAA comprises three important requirements. They are protection for the security of Protected Health Information, standardization of electronic information interchange in health care transactions, and protection for the privacy of Protected Health Information. The HIPAA security rule needs professionals and healthcare practices to secure protected health information (PHI) from the deletion of data, breaches, and other issues. The requirements of the law are necessary and thus can be challenging. The components cover all the aspects of the business: technology, record keeping, policies, and building safety.

Technical safeguards are in place with the security rule to protect ePHI but also to provide access to the data. The implementation specifications that are required are to implement a means of access control and introduce activity logs and audit controls.

The Physical Safeguards focus on physical access to ePHI irrespective of its location. ePHI could be stored in a remote data center, in the cloud, or on servers which are located within the premises of the HIPAA covered entity. They also stipulate how workstations and mobile devices should be secured against unauthorized access. The implementation specifications that are required are policies for the use or positioning of workstations and policies and procedures for mobile devices.

The Administrative Safeguards are the policies and procedures which bring the Privacy Rule and the Security Rule together. They are the pivotal elements of a HIPAA compliance checklist and require that a Security Officer and a Privacy Officer be assigned to put the measures in place to protect ePHI, while they also govern the conduct of the workforce. The requirements include conducting risk assessments, introducing riskmanagement policy, developing a contingency plan, and restricting third party access.

The three major requirements of HIPAA are that it protects the privacy of the patients, there is confidentiality of the protected health information, and that there us security for the information and disclosure.

Edemekong PF, Haydel MJ. Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act (HIPAA) [Updated 2019 May 5]. In: StatPearls [Internet]. Treasure Island (FL): StatPearlsPublishing; 2019 Jan-.Available from: https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/books/NBK500019/