Assignment Description The Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act (HIPAA) regulations directly impact the delivery of health care services in the United States. For this paper, you will...

Running Head: HIPAA REGULATIONS        1
HIPAA REGULATIONS         9
HEALTH INSURANCE PORTABILITY AND ACCOUNTABILITY ACT (HIPAA) REGULATIONS
Table of Contents
Introduction    3
HIPAA and its Purposes    3
What is HIPAA    3
Purpose of HIPAA    3
Analysis of the HIPAA Privacy Rule    4
General Rule of Patient Authorization    4
Differentiation    5
The Way Nursing Homes are Subject to HIPAA Act:    5
The Way Home Care is Subject to HIPAA Act:    5
Effects of Confidentiality Settings on HIPAA    6
Effect on the Employees    6
Conclusion    6
References    8
Introduction
This assignment is to highlight the norms of the Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act (HIPAA), evaluate and tally how it affects the delivery of health care services in The United States. We would discuss the controls, which the federal government has put in place to protect the personal health information.
HIPAA and its Purposes
What is HIPAA
The Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act (HIPAA) is a federal law, which was being passed in the year 1996, by the Federal Law, with the fostered grounded intent of setting the national standard to safeguard medical records and other personal health information (Wiener, 2013).
Purpose of HIPAA
i. Aims to help consumers maintain their insurance coverage.
ii. Takes in separate set of provision termed as the administrative simplification.
iii. Targets to improve the efficiency and effectiveness of healthcare system.
iv. Cinches the continual of delivering health care services to the employees even during the job hours (Kwak & Polivka, 2014).
v. Prevention of fraud was another main aim of HIPAA.
vi. It implements in securing the received patient data and information for the purpose of safety.
vii. Technology re-modified to ensure efficient transfer of patient data, billing, eligibility checks and payment methods.
viii. It also outlaws the Tax deduction of interest, henceforth standardizing the amount, which is to be saved in pre-tax saving account (Kwak & Polivka, 2014).
ix. Aims at reducing paperwork burden in healthcare organizations, by enforcing digitalization.
x. Focuses on improvement of healthcare services in the healthcare industry.
Analysis of the HIPAA Privacy Rule
The HIPAA privacy rule aims at ensuring the security of health information of a particular patient, the patient database being provided in a digitalized form so that, it can remain secure, away from the reach of unnecessary leakage of the personal information and details of the patient. It has already implemented certain restrictions to the allowable usage of patient data disclosure. In addition, as supported by Burwell and Saucier (2013), it gives proper access to the healthcare data of a patient, on his request. Overall, it is significant that there has...