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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...