SAFE HARBOR PROVISIONS UNDER HIPAA

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Safe Harbor provisions under HIPAA.

Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act represent HIPAA. Therefore, HIPAA is the accountability and portability act that is also known as federal law. One of the principles of this law is that without permission from the owner, no one can access data since the users' data can always be used by anyone for any purpose and is always confidential. HIPAA ensures data are private by ensuring that the owners and authorized individuals can only access data. This brings confidence to everyone who stores and uses it. The Office of civil rights is responsible for matters concerning the violation of the HIPPA. However, health information, the rules are indicated in each right. Users information usually relies on different software applications like cloud storage and Dropbox.

Under HIPAA, the safe harbor rule is considered one of the significant security rules HIPAA. It is essential to protect people's health information since it contains personal information like the contact, name, identity, date of birth, and addresses. Additionally, the Safe Harbor rule also discusses more the patient's current and previous information. This ensures that the health confidential information of the patients is highly secured in a way that it cannot be accessed by everybody who is not authorized. Individuals who store information under HIPAA have got higher confidentiality on the privacy of their information. The de-identification process helps identify the patients' information very quickly, hence saving a lot of time. Once the patient's information has been de-identified, it will no longer be considered secure because everyone has already identified it. (Abramovitz, 2017).

Several reasons make the patients or individuals re-identify the information. Patients or individuals feel that information or data stored is insecure since it can be revealed, and in this case, it means that everybody can access the information. That is the main reason that can make the patients de-identify the information. The other reason is that patients don't like exposing their information to everyone because they take a safe harbor provision as a challenging area.

Therefore, it is essential to ensure that all the information in the health facilities is highly secured from external parties or unauthorized parties. The patient's de-identified information on health facilities is always used to doing more research works that help come up with the required and new methods of treating patients. When information is stored in a better way, it can therefore be used to solve the arising situations.

The security team and the information technology team play a significant role in protecting the information and data from external attacks. This is exercised by setting up passwords to the computers in the workplace that may be used to protect the patient's information stored on the computer.  These security teams show some security steps that are so helpful when it comes to data protection. These are security posture, policy-making, monitoring, investigations and modeling’s. Data integrity is determined by checking both the outputs and inputs that the security control incorporates. However, the data should be secured through passwords by ensuring that those passwords are not shared among many individuals apart from the ones with authority.