HIPAA: Organizational Liability and Individual Privacy in Healthcare

Organizational Liability and Individual Privacy
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Organizational Liability and Individual Privacy
The revised Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act (HIPAA) is inadequate in protecting health data in the electronic age because it only safeguards the confidentiality of protected health information (PHI). The law protects this information category under the Privacy Rule, fundamentally discretely identifiable medical data that an entity generates, maintains, accepts, or shares electronically (HHS Office for Civil Rights, 2013). In this way, HIPAA is a compliance rule that does not provide steps to protect health data from ever-rising cybersecurity threats. HIPAA is recommended to be re-examined to ensure it can constantly identify and mitigate cybersecurity risks within the contemporary healthcare information systems landscape (Garrubba, 2014).
Health care organizations should comply with one of three distinct requirements (also referred to as the use-and-disclosure rules) to protect health information and safeguard themselves against liability. First, the hospital can disclose PHI without seeking permission from the client subject to the information...