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Benchmark Assignment 4

This course covers the broad range of topics affected by health law an...
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Legal Issues In Health Care: Regulation And Compliance (HCS 430)

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Laws and Regulations in Health Care Benchmark Assignment Laws and Regulations in Health Care Jakaira Urena Taryn Zubich Laws and Regulations in Health Care In particular, patients have certain rights guaranteed the federal law giving us copies of medical records and keeping them private. There are additional laws that many states protect patients and healthcare facilities with the patient bill of rights. One of the most important reasons is informed consent under the services of treatment. The healthcare provider should give patients the information needed to make a decision. Hospitals will also help many patients with advocates if they need a treatment. An ombudsman office in many states is offered to help with care. Evaluate the impact the law or regulation selected has on the healthcare industry. As an illustration, the incentives disclosing of generalized healthcare information technology. Containing the creation of all public health care foundation explicitly designing the acceleration of implementing the arrangement of electronic health records (EHR) amongst providers. This anticipation is a massive expansion the legislation is exchanging the protection of electronic health information (ePHI), the Health Information Technology for Economic and Clinical Health Act (HITECH Act). An augmented scope of privacy and security protections under inflation of all potential legal liability of providing massed enforcement (HIPAA Survival Guide, Evaluate what impact the legal and regulatory requirements of the law or regulation you selected has in the healthcare industry. Laws and Regulations in Health Care bring criminal charges for any violations of PHI under HIPAA. Preventing PHI without the authorization of being disclosed or stolen for personal gains (HIPAA Journal, 2018). Conclusion Provided that, the private organization the Joint Commission on Accreditation of Healthcare Organizations (JCAHO) has been in use since 1965 accrediting facilities and hospitals. Which have allowed the review and participation of Medicare, particularly having changed the process in 2010. The ability of JCAHO prior participation has control and determination of related rules of patient care. After this implementation of constant review, they pertained confidentiality of PHI and larger numbers of coinciding revisions of EHRs with increased prevalence (United States Government, 2018). Laws and Regulations in Health Care References 1. HIPAA Journal. (2018). What is the HITECH Act?. Retrieved from 2. HIPAA Survival Guide. HITECH Act Summary. Retrieved from 3. HHS. (2017). HITECH Act Enforcement Interim Final Rule. Retrieved from 4. United States Government. (2018). How Laws Are Made and How to Research Them. Retrieved from 5. U. Department of Health Human Services. (2018). What are my health care rights and responsibilities? Retrieved from

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Benchmark Assignment 4

Course: Legal Issues In Health Care: Regulation And Compliance (HCS 430)

12 Documents
Students shared 12 documents in this course

University: University of Phoenix

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Laws and Regulations in Health Care
Benchmark Assignment
Laws and Regulations in Health Care
Jakaira Urena
HCS/430
Taryn Zubich

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