Question

Our Town Medical Center has hired a new Chief Information Officer who is responsible for the information security plan. She has decided that HIPAA is outdated, complying with HIPAA security standards is too costly, and that the medical center would be better to save the money spent and use to deal with a data breach.

She has stated that her philosophy is that, “Nothing is going to stop breaches, so why waste our money?” This is concerning to you in your role as the privacy officer and you are preparing to meet with her and discuss the importance of compliance with both the security and privacy rules.

Discuss the ethical and compliance dilemmas. How should the privacy officer respond and what resources should the privacy officer gather?  

Post should be in paragraph form and about 5-10 sentences.

Answer 1

Maintaining or Safegaurding the patient health information is the main goal of every hospital and there would be certain ethical dilemmas in following the HIPAA privacy rules.This is because of certain rules of HIPAA such as even the information cannot be shared with family members , certain fears of disclosure of information etc.Privacy officer should always be ready to clear the dilemmas and musinterpretations of the staff working in health care department by gathering the resources such as examples of scenarios happened in the past,importance of privacy policies for those concerned situations.Also can carry some resources of flash cards to make the staff enough to understand.