I was assigned to do OPTION 1
Privacy Rule Violations
Prior to beginning work on this discussion, review the details on the Health Information Privacy: The HIPAA Privacy RuleLinks to an external site. webpage. By Day 1 of Week 1, your instructor will divide the class into two groups for this discussion. Group 1 will address Option 1 and respond to those in Group 2; Group 2 will address Option 2 and respond to those in Group 1.
Option 1: Case Study: Electronic Health RecordsAn outpatient surgical facility disclosed a patient’s protected health information (PHI) to a research entity for recruitment purposes without the patient’s authorization or an Institutional Review Board (IRB) or privacy-board-approved waiver of authorization. The outpatient facility reportedly believed that such disclosures were permitted by the Privacy Rule.
- Research the privacy rule and examine the section of the rule that addresses this violation.
- Imagine that you are an information management coordinator at this facility; analyze the possible actions that you would take to resolve this conflict using the most current version of the law. Remember, you are addressing this from a research perspective.
