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3. Goals of HIPAAPrimary Goals:
- Improved efficiency in healthcare delivery by standardizing electronic data interchange, and
- Protection of confidentiality and security of health data through setting and enforcing standards.
Title II of HIPAA consists of 3 basic components - privacy, security, and transaction and code sets(4):
- Privacy - provides regulations to assist in developing policies and procedures to assure that patient information is only used to accomplish your job on the client's behalf and with their agreement. In addition, privacy will result in legal agreements between your organization and others who share protected patient information. The privacy regulation will most likely require the most effort to implement in an organization.
- Security - provides regulations to assist in developing policies and implementing software, assuring that individuals cannot access electronic information, which is not required to perform their job.
- Transaction and Code Sets - provides regulations to reduce the cost of maintaining computer systems by defining standardized file layouts (transactions) and code sets (data domain within a transaction).
For More Information
Basic Introduction to HIPAA
12/31/01 - Short presentation about Security, Privacy, and Transactions and Code Sets from Title II of HIPAA (Powerpoint Presentation by Ceil Martin - Henry County Memorial Hospital).
