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You have been invited to do a presentation to the laboratory department regarding Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act (HIPAA) compliance and electronic health records. Discuss the salient points of your presentation and why you feel it is important to include this information in your presentation. 
Include the following information:

Define protected health information and when it can be disclosed.
Differentiate between the privacy rule and the security rule as it applies to actual use in the laboratory.
Differentiate between identifiable and unidentified information and their uses.
Your answer should be supported with a minimum of 1 reliable resource in addition to your text. Be sure to cite all references in APA format.
3 pages, abstract, introduction clonclusion

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The protected health information
Running Head: Protected Health Information   1
The protected health 
information 
Health Insurance Portability and Accountability 
Act
[Type the author name] 
24-Aug-13
Protected Health Information   2
Abstract 
The paper analyzed the Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act (HIPAA) 
compliance and electronic health records. The protected health information is often sought out in 
the datasets primarily for the de-identification before various researchers are allowed to share 
this dataset publicly. When the researchers remove this protected health information from 
various datasets they do so in an attempt towards preserving the privacy for various research 
participants. The Electronic health records are the way to the future. While the human genome 
project is a successful venture, there are chances that the information recorded in this project 
would be needed by doctors in the future.
Protected Health Information   3
Introduction 
 The paper discusses and analyzes the Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act 
(HIPAA) compliance and electronic health records. For improving the efficiency as well as 
effectiveness of the nation’s health care system, the Health Insurance Portability and 
Accountability Act of 1996 (HIPAA), Public Law 104-191, primarily included Administrative 
Simplification provisions that required the Department of Health and the Human Services (HHS) 
towards adopting national standards for the electronic health care transactions as well as code 
sets, unique health identifiers, along with security (Blumenthal, 2010). The Congress at the same 
time recognized that the advances in the electronic technology could primarily erode the privacy 
of the health information.  
Analysis 
The Protected health information can be considered as any information about the health 
status, provision of the health care, or the payment for the health care that can primarily be 
linked towards a specific individual/patient. This can be interpreted rather broadly along with 
including any part of the patient's medical record or their payment history (Carter, 2006). The 
protected health information is often sought out in the datasets primarily for the de-
identification before various researchers are allowed to share this dataset publicly.

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