Assignment: Health Reform and Patient Confidentiality Literature Review
Competency
Evaluate the laws that govern the management of patient health information.
Scenario
You are the chief privacy officer for a health system. Your responsibilities include developing, guiding, and assisting with the overall Privacy and HIPAA policies and procedures for departments that store, process, and transmit protected health information. You have been asked to review the health system's current policies and procedures on HIPAA. As a best practice, your first plan of action is to review the current literature on recent health policy developments (i.e., health reform) and the impact of those developments on HIPAA. The literature review will assist in ensuring that the policies and procedures are updated and remain in compliance with privacy guidelines.
Instructions
For this task, you will need to conduct a literature review of current developments in healthcare that impact HIPAA legislation and the application of privacy rules. You will need to review a minimum of 5 scholarly journal articles published within the past 10 years.
Format your assignment according to the following formatting requirements:
(1) The answer should be typed, double spaced, using Times New Roman font (size 12), with one-inch margins on all sides.
(2) The response also includes a cover page containing the title of the assignment, the student's name, the course title, and the date. The cover page is not included in the required page length.
(3) Also include a reference page. The Citations and references should follow APA format. The reference page is not included in the required page length.