Generally, what does the HIPAA Privacy Rule require the average provider or health plan to do?
For the average health care provider or health plan, the Privacy Rule requires activities, such as: – Notifying patients about their privacy rights and how their information can be used. – Adopting and implementing privacy procedures for its practice, hospital, or plan. – Training employees so that they understand the privacy procedures. – Designating an individual to be responsible for seeing that the privacy procedures are adopted and followed. – Securing patient records containing individually identifiable health information so that they are not readily available to those who do not need them. Responsible health care providers and businesses already take many of the kinds of steps required by the Rule to protect patients’ privacy. Covered entities of all types and sizes are required to comply with the Privacy Rule. To ease the burden of complying with the new requirements, the Privacy Rule gives needed flexibility for providers and plans to create their own privacy procedures, tailo
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