Clinical Activity: Maintaining Alignment to Legal Changes
Policy and Procedures on Information System
My organization's priorities are maintaining the confidentiality of patients and also protecting the organization as a whole from any security impingements. All information is password-protected with strong passwords requiring six characters or more, at least one capital letter and one lower case letter, a number and a symbol of some kind. Passwords are also regularly changed. There is also an additional level of screening with security questions.
Employees are prohibited from using their work email address to conduct personal business. All work emails are monitored to ensure that employees do not disclose private data of patients, work passwords, or open up potentially corrupted files that could damage the system. Mobile devices must likewise be secured and data must only be accessed on secured networks. All employees are prohibited from disclosing any private data about patients with any third parties unless given permission to do so or for billing purposes.
Healthcare Informatics Laws
The most relevant law pertaining to this policy is the Health Insurance Privacy Act (HIPAA). HIPAA specifies that there must be safeguards to protect patient's healthcare information from security impingements and they are prohibited from disclosing health information "improperly" ("Your rights under HIPAA," 2016). HIPAA also states that...
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