Privacy And Security Audits Of Electronic Health Information

Question: Discuss about the privacy and security audits of electronic health information. Answer: Security and Privacy of electronic health information are always a bigger concern for many health care organizations and as the time progress the complexity in a healthcare organization is increasing day by day and making things more challenging to reduce the access to little information necessary that the employees of the hospital need to perform their jobs (Walsh Miaoulis, 2014). It is also true that the workers sometimes required a higher level of information access so that to provide the adequate service to the patient but sometimes due to lack of information or data access they cannot take proper care of the patient and safety is entirely compromised. So to ensure that the security of the information is maintaining within the Electronic Health Information of the organizations has to develop some security policies and security audit. The Healthcare have to perform security audits logs and trails which offer a backend view of the used system. To show the security audits the healt hcare industry has to consider HIPPAA safety rules which have two provisions that are needed by any healthcare organization. This journal describes the HIPPAA Audit program protocol with the primary activities and audit protocol to audit the information produce by the electronic health information in the healthcare industry. With the approach of audit trail security programs the healthcare organization can correctly monitor and track that who has accessed the patient record data or information. Audit trails trace all the system activities by time stamps and generating dates. The article describes that information needs to be checked and implementing the right audit tools to audit the information. The primary objective of this audit reports is to find out the individual who has inappropriately accessed the patient health information, and necessary action will be taken against them (Walsh Miaoulis, 2014). The privacy and security of the patient health information can be protected by educating the employee in the health organization and to make sure the positive outcome and the success of the privacy and security audit planning or strategy. References Walsh, T., Miaoulis, W. M. (2014). Privacy and Security Audits of Electronic Health Information (2014 update).Journal of AHIMA,85(3), 54-59.