HIPAA Security rules

Health insurance and accountability act (HIPAA), August 21, 1996 congress approved security rule of individual identifiable health information. It is security standards of protection of health data and security information. Electronic healthcare records and other branched records need continuous security rules in order to ensure specific address uses and other associated roles related to the patients. Adopting new technologies is the main core of work that serves also the protocols of electronic data transformation. HIPAA rule applies over wide range of medical data including Physicians, nurses and even midwives and pharmacists. All are working under umbrella of same rules of security and data safety barriers to reach intended threshold of data quality optimization among patients and care contributors. The HIPAA privacy and security rules applied to health care providers and non-health care providers. In next paragraph we are going to discuss the main operating components of HIPAA Security rule;

HIPAA privacy rule: this rule control the transferring process of medical information and also identifiable health information through covering the identities:

Ø  Common identifiers (e.g. name, address, birth date, social security number)

Ø  Past, present or future physical and mental health or condition

Ø  Provision of health care to individuals

Ø Past, present or future payment provision for health care

The privacy rule needs entitled permission for information disclosure of patient health records.

HIPPA Security rule:  the rule of security covers the process of maintaining and transmitting in electronic form, as follow:

Ø  Ensuring authorized disclosure, integrity and availability of all personally identifiable health information

Ø  Identify and protect against anticipated threats to the confidentiality, integrity and availability

Ø Protection against impermissible use and disclosure of information

The characteristic feature of this rule that needs administrative safe guards by patients identifiable disclosure in electronic forms of data reviewing pattern.

HITECH: The Health Information Technology for Economic and Clinical Health Act (HITECH) is considered the extension of individually standards of information privacy. It forms legal liability of non-compliance and also provides patient notified toward any unsecured access to electronic health data and patients privates records. The act draw more individuality frame of society and embrace patient role of self data protection in order to do complementary role with former security rules. Full health J