HIPAA and PHI and Requirement

Review of HIPAA and PHI and Requirement for Privacy and Confidentiality in EHRs
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Review of HIPAA and PHI and Requirement for Privacy and Confidentiality in EHRs
Electronic Health Records (EHRS) were adapted in the 1960s and 1970s to compile and manage patient health records from one central location. Studies carried out by the Institute of medicine 1999 stated that the development of health data technology would minimize medical errors and risk (Balestra, 2017). Although EHR helps minimize medical errors and risk, some predicaments may compel questioning of ethical issues as well as legal. Some of the legal and ethical issues that may affect even an advanced registered nurse are the temptation to copy and paste details from previous files to reuse the information, late data entry and changing the already signed document, and inaccurate filing of the documents. The establishment of the Health Insurance Portability and Accountability (HIPAA) Act-1996 safeguards patient data through Protected Health Information (PHI) by a 'cove...