Question

Is HIPPA’s patient privacy guarantee worth $3 billion? Is the fact that it is causing health insurance to skyrocket a bigger problem than patient privacy? Explain your rationale.

Answer 1

Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act,( HIPAA) Privacy Rule took effect, and early changes to the Rule permitted sharing healthcare data for restricted purposes, essentially easing some limitations on providers and health plans related to health services research.

With the growing volumes of valuable data, for evidence-based research, has forced significant changes to strike a balance between privacy and advancement.

The Department of Health and Human Services (HHS), has helped to develop HIPAA, and commented on some important legal barriers to effectively using clinical data for research.

The public demands higher quality care at lower costs with greater access. Healthcare data are uniquely positioned to provide care delivery processes and outcomes. The organizations has to secure individual patient health information and improve the coordination and quality of care.

To access generating data and security of health data continues to create significant barriers for organizations striving to provide clinical services.

Wilder highlights the growing opportunity to address the confluence of future, unspecified research and individual rights regarding the use of individual data through policy. There were suggestions of formally reviewing HIPAA de-identification standards. distribution of liability, safe harbor requirements, burdens across covered and non-covered entities.