Question

I chose HIPAA for this assignment. I don't really understand how to answer #3 at all. Also, I don't know what a policy model is. Any help would be appreciated.

1. Identify the main stakeholders and constituents.

2. Explain how the policy model shaped or influenced the policy’s final form.

3. How does the policy address access, equity, and health outcomes?

Answer 1

1. The stakeholders of HIPAA include all the patients receiving healthcare services, health identifiers of patients, employers, health plan providers, healthcare clearing houses and others responsible for storing, managing and transmitting health information in electronic format. The five constituents of this Act are health insurance reform, administrative simplification, tax-related health provisions, group health plan requirements and revenue offsets.

2. The policy model helps in framing the final form by covering four major entities. It ensures the integrity, confidentiality and availability of e-PHI that are created, received, maintained or transmitted. Furthermore, it helps in identifying and protecting any potential or anticipated threats to the security of information of healthcare. Besides, it provides protection against any anticipated or impermissible uses and disclosures. In addition, it ensures compliance with the workforce in the healthcare organizations.

3. HIPAA helps in providing secured and individual access to protected health information, enables the patient privacy workflow and emphasizes on any data privacy concerns, identifies the need for PHI access of parents and caregivers and complies with maintaining the privacy following a patient’s death.

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