Question

Part 2

1. Identify risks to both electronic and paper patient records, and recommend remedies that can put in place to protect the records from compromise.

2. Create policy statements that comply with (HIPAA) regulations addressing access to and disclosure of electronic and paper patient records.

3. Describe relevant training topics that will educate the staff on accessing and disclosing patient records.

Answer 1

Paper records:

Pros:

Easily available and able to learn by the employees

Easy to maintain by collecting more factsheets and kept in a file

Able to make own styles of formats

Cons.

Possibility of stolen or destroyed

Papers can get lost

Have to store physically for a longer period

Geting the information on previous history takes time

Electronic records:

pros:

All our data will be placed in a single folder and easily accessible at any time

Safe and secure

Time effective

cons:

Needs technical knowledge to use it

Needs internet to access from different location

expensive

Educate the staff regrding the patint records on

Maintaing confidentiality

Maintainig Privacy

Security of data