1. Safeguard your confidential data by implementing HIPAA Privacy Rule's De-
Identification Standard
A legislative act passed in year 1996, called HIPAA or in other words the Health Insurance
Portability & Accountability Act affected the health care administration. For years, we have
researched upon the safety rule along with three types of security safeguards based mainly on
technical and physical grounds.
Amongst the above mentioned three safety points, we delved at the administrative safeguards
and its obligatory as well as addressable implementation specifications. In this article, we will
examine the main key factors pertaining to the technical and physical safeguards of the
security rule. The motive of this article is to simplify and state the main concepts of HIPAA
Privacy Rule's De-Identification Standard.
Physical Safeguards
Physical safeguard rule laid by the HIPAA Privacy Rule's De-Identification Standard deals with
the strategies and procedures required to be implemented in order to control physical
admission to systems or devices containing health information and facilities covering
electronic records.
It is therefore mandatory to take maximum care when beginning and removing hardware and
software that deals with secured Health Information (PHI) from the network. Utmost care
must be taken in disposing off any equipment which is on the edge of retirement, so that PHI
contained within such systems is not compromised.
Health data stored in the equipment must be controlled and monitored carefully.
Access to the hardware and software must be operated by proper trained and
authenticated individuals.
Make sure that workstations must be situated away from high traffic areas to avoid
direct view of the monitor screens to the public.
The main person taking the services of contractors and agents must assure that the
contractors and agents are professionally trained and are aware of their duties and
responsibilities.
Technical Safeguards
Technical security measures deals with factors that require to be executed when transmitting
health information electronically over open networks in order to ensure that health
information do not go into wrong hands.

2. Responsible entity must follow a strict procedure to make sure information integrity
which includes digital signature, check sum, message confirmation.
Execute right methods to confirm that the entity entitle to access the electronic
records is the one it claims to be. There are some signs to confirm the same that
includes card systems, password systems, giving a return call, and hand showing signs
Drafting and maintaining all policies implemented and practices followed for HIPAA
Privacy Rule's De-Identification Standard that needs to be presented as and when
required by the compliance auditors.
Implementation Specifications
We cannot ignore with the healthcare compliance, as it becomes essential to safeguard
Protected Health Information.
It is required to employ a system that will take utmost care of the health information, for this
our heath care providers like doctors, hospitals and health plans must be given a unique
identifier. At present most of them are using either tax-id numbers or employer identification
number.
The security and privacy rules have laid down certain provisions to assure that the personal
records of people is not misused, secured and kept confidential, any person failing to follow
the rule will be fined up to $250,000 and possible jail time for severe enough violations by
HIPAA. HIPAA rule was indeed designed and created to ease the massive process of health
care administration.
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as O.SHA, HIPAA, Joint commission and Red Flag Rule etc. Apart from this emPower also offers
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3. that guides students to progress at their own pace.
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