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***GRADING RUBRIC AND INSTRUCTIONS MUST BE FOLLOWED***<\/p>\n
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Prepare a workplace brief (4-6 single-spaced pages) to address a privacy breach that occurred in a health care organization. Include the consequences of failure to act and evidence-based recommendations for addressing the breach.<\/p>\n
In this assessment, you are assuming the role of an early careerist in risk management and quality improvement at one of Vila Health’s community-based hospitals. Vila Health is a medium-sized system of health operating facilities in Minnesota and Wisconsin. You are working on a team-based initiative under the supervision of the Vila Health Chief Compliance Officer. Your role is to assist in addressing a specific compliance risk regarding a breach of privacy and potential HIPAA violation. A Vila Health employee has disclosed\u2014without prior written authorization\u2014a patient’s protected personal health information.<\/p>\n
Here is the information the team has collected about the privacy breach and potential HIPAA violation to date. A Vila Health supervisor instructed an employee to obtain pre-authorization for an upcoming surgical procedure for a patient. The Vila Health employee submitted confidential, protected health care information about the patient to the insurance company. The Member Services Representative at the insurance company contacted the Vila Health supervisor. The insurance company representative indicated that further discussion of the matter without prior written consent from the patient is prohibited.<\/p>\n
As part of the team exploring the privacy breach, you will prepare a workplace brief with authoritative, evidence-based references to support your work.<\/p>\n
This is a workplace brief rather than an academic paper. Use the attached template and Be sure to address all of the following in your brief:<\/p>\n
Include a short paragraph of no more than five or six sentences describing the known details about the privacy breach and HIPAA violation.<\/p>\n
Summarize the relevant health care compliance concepts that apply to this privacy breach and HIPAA violation. Be sure to consider the following:<\/p>\n
Apply to this HIPAA breach the seven essential components of an effective health care compliance program, as determined within the Federal Register.<\/p>\n
Provide a synopsis of the consequences for an individual leader and for other internal health care organization stakeholders for not taking immediate actions to address a privacy breach. At a minimum, be sure to consider all of the following in your synopsis:<\/p>\n
Construct evidence-based recommendations to resolve the HIPAA-related privacy breach. You may also want to include relevant information related to:<\/p>\n
For help in identifying appropriate evidence-based recommendations, you may want to visit some of the authoritative sources, such as the DOJ\/OIG, CMS\/HHS, et cetera, listed under the suggested resources for this assessment.<\/p>\n
Describe an ethical decision making framework as one of your concluding recommendations. Tip: You may want to use the ACHE\u2019s ethical decision-making framework:<\/p>\n
Write a paragraph that summarizes the following:<\/p>\n
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