NURS FPX 4040 Assessment 2 Protected Health Information (PHI): Privacy, Security, and Confidentiality Best Practices JJ Importance of Interdisciplinary Collaboration to Safeguard Sensitive Electronic Health Information

NURS FPX 4040 Assessment 2 Protected Health Information (PHI): Privacy, Security, and Confidentiality Best Practices JJ

Importance of Interdisciplinary Collaboration to Safeguard Sensitive Electronic Health Information

Interdisciplinary collaboration is vital for ensuring the right implementation of all the privacy, security, and confidentiality practices to improve the quality of protecting patient health information. This means that the teams of nurses, doctors, administrators, and other hospital staff can effectively collaborate and communicate patient information without leaking it to make vital decisions (Berwick, 2018). These practices allow nursing homes to avoid possible violations of PHI rules related to social media postings and work according to HIPPA laws. The Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act were enacted in 1996 designed by the federal government to discourage and prohibit posting of patients’ personal information online. The HIPPA protects the rights of millions of American patients by safeguarding and protecting their personal information disclosed to healthcare professionals and organizations (Valdez, 2019). 

Security, Privacy, and Confidentiality Laws to Protect Sensitive Electronic Health Information

Moreover, the Patient Safety and Quality Improvement Act (2005) have also emphasized the importance of using confidentiality principles according for ensuring PHI in healthcare settings. Such rules are vital for our nursing home to be aware of things that are prohibited by the law. According to Rothstein(2019), information privacy relates to controlling how nurses collect patients’ health information and disclose it to others using social media and other email tools. The PHI ensures that their personal data is proceed properly when transmitted (Kim Theodos, 2021). For instance, patients must be confident that healthcare organizations are protecting their rights of privacy by not uploading their data on social media. Moreover, confidentiality concept relates to use of patient’s information for the intended purposes only. This means patients must be confident that nursing homes use privacy and security management plans to prevent disclosure to information to third parties for personal gain. Therefore, only authorized nurses should have the patient information that should not be posted on the Internet for fun. Security principle means ensuring who is responsible for maintaining relevant laws in nursing homes to avoid compromise of PHI. For instance, the nurse who was terminated due to the breach of HIPPA laws was considered at fault when she collected personal information of a client and compromised its security.