Reply to this post giving the advantages

Reply to this post giving the advantages of training healthcare workers about electronic health records. Since moving from paper charting to electronic health records, patients’ health information is more easily accessible. However, so is there privacy and sensitive health information. “However, there has been very little activity in policy development involving the numerous significant privacy issues raised by a shift from a largely disconnected, paper-based health record system to one that is integrated and electronic” (Fernandez-Aleman et al., 2013, para. 10). Training programs needed for the technology required for patient privacy related to the electronic health record should revolve around access granting, sensitive data, encryption schemes, authorization and authentication, and digital signature schemes (Fernandez-Aleman el al., 2013). All of these things go along with protecting patients’ private information in accordance with the Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act of 1996 (HIPAA). The Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act “… is a federal law that required the creation of national standards to protect sensitive patient information from being disclosed without the patient’s consent or knowledge” (U.S. Department of Health & Human Services, 2022, para. 1). When training new employees on whatever charting system is used for the facility in which they are hired on for, patient privacy should be a huge part of that training. Patients are already in a vulnerable state as soon as they come into a hospital setting, especially if they are being admitted. They get their clothes and shoes taken and have to put on a hospital gown and hospital socks for fall prevention purposes. They are completely out of their element and comfort zone- worrying about their privacy rights should not be one more issue to add to the pile. The importance of maintaining patient privacy and confidentiality should be stressed to new hires. Just because a nurse’s neighbor is in the hospital does not give that nurse the right to look into their neighbors chart in efforts to find out what is going on with them. Not only should this topic be stressed but it should also be made known that the nurse, or any other health care professional, who gets into a patient’s chart without it being necessary (like they are providing some sort of patient care) will be reprimanded in some way. As I mentioned earlier, the Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act is a federal law to protect patient privacy and is therefore punishable by the court of law if patient privacy is broken or their electronic health records are misused for personal gain. Ongoing training on the importance of protecting patient privacy should be performed yearly at minimum. Even if just as a reminder of how important patient privacy is- meaning if there is no new information to be gone over in efforts to protect patient privacy, staff should still be brought in yearly to go over what measures are already in place for their facility. SCIENCE HEALTH SCIENCE NURSING NURSING BS N494

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