HIPAA: Helping Millions in Millions of Ways

From the beginning, the problem that most living creatures most is simple: survival. Since then, millions of hospitals around the world have come to use people, it is getting easier. But people can not necessarily use them safely. Regardless of currency and privacy issues people are concerned about the health insurance portability and accountability legislation. Usually abbreviated as HIPAA, it helps millions of people in various ways (Harmen 1). HIPAA will help them by allowing employees and their families to protect health information and make it easy to access and maintain at affordable prices.

HIPAA audit is increasing. Even in 2016 alone, OCR assigned $ 23.5 million to HIPAA's default settlement. This increased from $ 6.2 million for the full year of 2015. As with large organizations, small practices are frequently reviewed and fined. With small-scale practice, it is important not to assume that the scale is hidden outside the Civil Rights Agency. The rules governing medical institutions are very different from those of other industry. In other market areas, this is not enough for medical institutions. Let's take a look at the data store in the cloud, for example. There are many cloud storage providers who are compliant with SOC 2 standards and have experience in securely storing important data. Data is stored in an irreversible encryption method and the data center can not access the data because there is no encryption key.

Let's read the security statement. In healthcare, we spend a lot of time discussing HIPAA, encryption, and other "data privacy" aspects. In other words, we want people to have difficulty accessing data. Data confidentiality is important, but data integrity (the ability to manipulate data) is becoming increasingly important. In other words, it may not be necessary for anyone to care that everyone knows my blood type is O +. I will be more concerned about tracking. This is data integrity. Block chain based technology is designed to prevent tampering

HIPAA passed the law in 1996 to protect patient's privacy, to fully protect confidential patient information and to be an important driving force for effective EHR data management. The cost of HIPAA violation is high, each violation may amount to as much as 50,000 dollars, but medical practice and hospitals may immediately pay a fine of 1.5 million dollars as HIPAA's problem could not be solved. Even without government incentives, healthcare providers are aware of the real benefits of medical data management, the same advantages that other companies derive from effective database management. However, healthcare workers also face some unique challenges in medical data management.