Reference no: EM133752542
Description
In this assessment you will assume the role of a nurse in an acute care, community, school, nursing home, or other health care setting. You will develop a 2-page interprofessional staff update on HIPAA and the appropriate social media use in health care. You will be required to review the infographics on protecting PHI provided in the suggested resources for this assessment to distill down to five or six principles that make them effective. Your task then will be to apply these principles to designing your interprofessional staff update.
Keep in mind that you may choose the format for this assignment (flyer, handout, etc) but all formats must be supported with current evidence and include citations per APA guidelines.
Be sure to include all elements of the scoring guide in your staff update: Description of the Laws, Importance of Interdisciplinary Collaboration, and Mitigating Risks.
Remember - you are presenting this to your staff and must be sure to include strategies to prevent a breach on social media as well as protect electronic health information.
When developing your update keep in mind that the update needs to hold the interest of the staff, because many times people do not read them, do not read them carefully, or do not read them to the end. Provide highlights of key points and make it easy to read. Do not exceed the 2 page limit (about 500 words).
You will also supply a separate reference page that includes two to three peer-reviewed and one to two non-pe
Prepare a 2 page interprofessional staff update on HIPAA and appropriate social media use in health care.
Introduction
Health care providers today must develop their skills in mitigating risks to their patients and themselves related to patient information. At the same time, they need to be able distinguish between effective and ineffective uses of social media in health care.
This assessment will require you to develop a staff update for an interprofessional team to encourage team members to protect the privacy, confidentiality, and security of patient information.
Professional Context
Health professionals today are increasingly accountable for the use of protected health information (PHI). Various government and regulatory agencies promote and support privacy and security through a variety of activities. Examples include:
Meaningful use of electronic health records (EHR).
Provision of EHR incentive programs through Medicare and Medicaid.
Enforcement of the Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act (HIPAA) rules.
Release of educational resources and tools to help providers and hospitals address privacy, security, and confidentiality risks in their practices.
Technological advances, such as the use of social media platforms and applications for patient progress tracking and communication, have provided more access to health information and improved communication between care providers and patients.
At the same time, advances such as these have resulted in more risk for protecting PHI. Nurses typically receive annual training on protecting patient information in their everyday practice. This training usually emphasizes privacy, security, and confidentiality best practices such as:
Keeping passwords secure.
Logging out of public computers.
Sharing patient information only with those directly providing care or who have been granted permission to receive this information.
Today, one of the major risks associated with privacy and confidentiality of patient identity and data relates to social media. Many nurses and other health care providers place themselves at risk when they use social media or other electronic communication systems inappropriately. For example, a Texas nurse was recently terminated for posting patient vaccination information on Facebook. In another case, a New York nurse was terminated for posting an insensitive emergency department photo on her Instagram account.
Preparation
As you begin to consider the assessment, it would be an excellent choice to complete the Breach of Protected Health Information (PHI) activity. The activity will support your success with the assessment by creating the opportunity for you to test your knowledge of potential privacy, security, and confidentiality violations of protected health information. The activity is not graded and counts towards course engagement.