HSM 4470: Health Data Security Assignment

All Students should consider some of the following sources about patient information regulations:

• HIPAA Security Rule - Summary
  • Security Rule Guidance Material
• HIPAA Privacy Rule - Summary
  • Privacy Rule Guidance Material
• Breach Notification Rule
  • Guidance to Protect PHI
• HIPAA Basics for Providers: Privacy, Security, & Breach Notification Rules (May 2021)

Breach notification rule
http://www.hhs.gov/ocr/privacy/hipaa/administrative/breachnotificationrule/

What to do in Case of a Breach of Unsecured PHI

A breach is, generally, an impermissible use or disclosure under the Privacy Rule that compromises the security or privacy of PHI such that the use or disclosure poses a significant risk of financial, reputational, or other harm to the affected individual. 

The Breach Notification Rule requires covered providers to promptly notify individuals and the Secretary of the HHS of the loss, theft, or certain other impermissible uses or disclosures of unsecured PHI. Health care providers must also promptly notify the Secretary of HHS if there is any breach of unsecured protected health information if the breach affects 500 or more individuals, and notify the media if the breach affects more than 500 individuals of a State or jurisdiction.

http://www.healthit.gov/providers-professionals/ehr-privacy-security/practice-integration

• American Health Information Management Association (AHIMA) - See especially the HIM Body of Knowledge

• Healthcare Information and Management Systems Society (HIMSS) See especially the Resources Topics

• International Federation of Health Information Management Associations (IFHIMA)

• UIC Health Informatics and Health Information Management

• HealthIT.gov
  Health information technology (health IT) makes it possible for health care providers to better manage patient care through secure use and sharing of health information. Health IT includes the use of electronic health records (EHRs) instead of paper medical records to maintain people's health information.
• HSRIC Health Informatics
  Health Services Research Information Central maintains a page through the U.S. National Library of Medicine & National Institutes of Health with resources in Health Informatics, Health Information Management, and more.
• Lister Hill National Center for Biomedical Communications
  LHNCBC conducts research and development in biomedical informatics and the use of advanced communications and computing technologies to improve how NLM (National Library of Medicine) brings clinical data and health information to consumers, health care providers, and researchers.