Terms

Term |Definition |How It Is Used in Health Care | |

|Health Insurance Portability and |HIPAA provides national standards to |The health care setting in which HIPPA will|

|Accountability Act |protect the privacy of personal health |be used is all healthcare settings, such as|

| |information. |hospitals, clinics, pharmacy, insurances |

| | |and HMO’S. All healthcare professionals |

| | |must obey all HIPPA rules and regulations |

| | |to avoid penalties (Mir, 2011). Privacy and|

| | |security needs to be maintained in order to|

| | |protect the services of patients, reducing |

| | |ethics violations, sustaining corporate |

| | |integrity as well as to increase patient |

| | |satisfaction. |

|Electronic medical record |EMR is a digital version of a paper chart |The health care setting that uses |

| |that contains all of a patient’s medical |electronic medical record is hospitals, |

| |history from one practice alone. An EMR is |physician’s offices, and medical health |

| |mostly used...