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Laws and Regulations Governing the Disclosure of Health Information

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Laws and Regulations Governing the Disclosure of Health Information

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Laws and Regulations Governing the Disclosure of Health Information (2014 update)

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Challenges in Implementing Health Informatics

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Challenges in Implementing Health Informatics

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Challenges in Implementing Health Informatics - Video & Lesson Transcript | Study.com

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In healthcare, the implementation of informatics presents both benefits and challenges. Explore a definition of health informatics, the rationale…

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Your Local Snake Oil Salesman

Imagine a country in which there are no laws regulating a healthcare system, or perhaps even no healthcare system at all. Anyone who felt the urge to do so could set up a booth offering 'healthcare' to the sick and vulnerable and charge whatever they wanted to charge. The sick and vulnerable might then be willing to pay his price, if given enough false hope. Treatment would vary from one practitioner to another, and there would be no recourse to the law if something went drastically wrong.

Fortunately, in the U.S. and most countries around the world, this is not the case. In this lesson, we're going to take a look at some of the regulations and agencies in the United States that protect citizens' interests by regulating the healthcare industry.

Legislative Bodies and Agencies

In the U.S., laws, including healthcare laws, are passed by Congress, which is the legislative body composed of the Senate and the House of Representatives. However, newly passed healthcare laws are sort of like rough drafts. They need intervention from professionals in the field to interpret and implement them. This is where state and federal agencies come in and map out the law's rules and regulations so that real-life healthcare facilities can put them into action. They're also usually the ones who actually enforce the laws, often with monetary fines or denial of reimbursements for non-compliance.

Federal Agencies

Many federal agencies are responsible for implementing the regulatory laws in the healthcare industry, each having specific functions:

Department of Health and Human Services

The Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) , is a cabinet-level agency whose ultimate goal is protecting Americans' health. It is a huge government organization that has many agencies within, that function at both the federal and state levels.

Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality

One of the HHS's component agencies is the Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality (AHRQ), which receives grants to conduct research that determines what the best practices are in healthcare.

Centers for Disease Control and Prevention

Another important HHS agency is the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC). The CDC keeps records and registries of global illnesses and tracks their occurrence to keep ahead of potential epidemics. It also gives information to the public about various health topics such as vaccinations, tick borne diseases and identification of ticks, and prevention and treatment of contagious diseases like HIV.

Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services

Another HHS agency is the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS), which has ten regional offices throughout the U.S. It runs the Medicare and Medicaid programs that are the payers for most of the healthcare for the nation's elderly and poor. It also assists with the administration of the Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act (HIPAA), which establishes policies for the use of personal health information and protects patient privacy.

Food and Drug Administration

The, there is the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA), which regulates food, dietary supplements, prescription drugs, vaccines and blood, medical devices, tobacco, alcohol, and other varied consumer products. It even gives information about the safety of cosmetics, which can contain carcinogens, or cancer-causing substances. The goal of the FDA is to ensure and maintain the safety of all of these agents and to approve for use new substances that are introduced on the market for public consumption.

Office of the Inspector General

The Office of the Inspector General (OIG), which has an important role in supporting the implementation of programs like Medicare and Medicaid and in preventing fraud and abuse during their delivery, is another HHS agency. The OIG performs audits and investigations of these services and educates the public about potential scams. It also oversees the functioning of other federal agencies like the CDC and the FDA.

There are many more agencies that regulate aspects of healthcare within the HHS, but here we have covered a few of the main ones.

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law & the healthcare workplace - video & lesson transcript | study.com

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Law & the Healthcare Workplace - Video & Lesson Transcript | Study.com

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Imagine a country in which there are no laws regulating a healthcare system, or perhaps even no healthcare system at all. Anyone who felt the urge to do so could set up a booth offering 'healthcare' to the sick and vulnerable and charge whatever they wanted to charge.

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1. http://bok.ahima.org/doc?oid=300245#.W53J_u9bzv8

2. https://www.hhs.gov/hipaa/for-professionals/privacy/laws-regulations/index.html https://www.jacksonvilleu.com/blog/health-informatics/legal-and-ethical-issues-in-health-informatics/

3. https://www.justice.gov/opcl/privacy-act-1974

4. https://www.americannursetoday.com/no-peeking-allowed/

5. https://www.jacksonvilleu.com/blog/health-informatics/legal-and-ethical-issues-in-health-informatics/

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1.  What are common ethical dilemmas in nursing informatics?

2.  If you witnessed a colleague demonstrating an unethical behavior by violating a patient's privacy and confidentiality utilizing health informatics, what action would you take and why?
(e.g. leaving a patient's EHR open in the public's eye, texting patient information).

3.  What do you think can help nurses avoid potential legal complications or risks in nursing informatics?

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Information and Ethics...Key Points

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Interprofessional Healthcare Informatics is a graduate-level, hands-on interactive exploration of real informatics tools and techniques offered by the University of Minnesota and the University of Minnesota's National Center for Interprofessional Practice and Education. We will be incorporating technology-enabled educational innovations to bring the subject matter to life. Over the 10 modules, we will create a vital online learning community and a working healthcare informatics network. We will explore perspectives of clinicians like dentists, physical therapists, nurses, and physicians in all sorts of practice settings worldwide. Emerging technologies, telehealth, gaming, simulations, and eScience are just some of the topics that we will consider. Throughout the course, we'll focus on creativity, controversy, and collaboration - as we collectively imagine and create the future within the rapidly evolving healthcare informatics milieu. All healthcare professionals and IT geeks are welcome!

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Informatics and Ethics - Informatics and Ethics | Coursera

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Interprofessional Healthcare Informatics is a graduate-level, hands-on interactive exploration of real informatics tools and techniques offered by the University of Minnesota and the University of Minnesota's National Center for Interprofessional Practice and Education. We will be incorporating technology-enabled educational innovations to bring the subject matter to life.

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Ethical and Legal Issues in Healthcare Informatics

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Ethical and Legal Issues in Healthcare Informatics