Administrative Ethics

Administrative Ethics

HCS/335

24Feb14

Who do we trust to keep our personal issue safe? Is it a computer, a file cabinet or a person who has sworn to not speak to anyone about our person issue related to healthcare? There is in fact The Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act. This act has been put in place to give you that ease of mind. But is it really that simple? How well does that system work and how do we measure the outcome of HIPPA and how it is ensured that it is 100% efficient and reliable to everyone. There is always more variables than we think when it comes to our own privacy. Where do we start and where do we end with that trust.

The issue here we have is the consistency of patient privacy. There are countless of ways that patient privacy can be easily be compromised. As stated before we have the Affordable accountability Act of 1966 and this clearly states “Provides the ability to transfer and continue health insurance coverage for millions of American workers and their families when they change or lose their jobs; Reduces health care fraud and abuse; Mandates industry-wide standards for health care information on electronic billing and other processes; and Requires the protection and confidential handling of protected health information. So what is the Population that this Act affects the most?

Clearly we know that there are more patients than doctors, nurses, and medical assistant’s etc. therefore patient privacy is or HIPPA is going to affect more of the general population than anyone else. One of the most common mislead reasons that a patients privacy is violated is because they have no idea what HIPPA is and how they are protected from it. It is not practiced in facilities to let patients know what their rights are when they walk in the door from a personal perspective such as from doctor to patient or nurse to patient....