HIPAA Compliance Report

In the past, small medical offices were sometimes not as up on HIPAA as they should have been, but that has been changing. The Internet is helping to ensure that even small providers are up to speed on this vital piece of legislation that protects the privacy of their patients. Complying with it also protects their medical business. Here are a few ways small providers are working hard to comply with HIPAA:

The HIPAA Privacy Authorization Form regulates the use and disclosure of any protected health information. Protected Health information is defined as any information regarding a patient’s health status, provision of health care, health care bills, or any information such as patient’s medical records or payment history. The form meets some of the needs of diverse clients. The form is basic and easy to understand. However, the form is very brief in explanation. It should explain clearly what Protected Health Information is. The form should spell out what HIPPA stands for, and briefly explain what it is. Furthermore, the form should have additional space to input patient information. For example, on the form paragraph number three-part b “other

HIPAA is a federal law that was passed in 1996. HIPAA stands for Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act.

Some of the processes that have changed since HIPAA was implemented have been a higher increase in the patient information and security. Our job is to make sure our patients information is not compromised and that their information is secured. Now with EHR's every employee that utilizes the EHR has a certain username and password that is extremely vital with accessing our patients records. Also making sure when we are on the phone with a patients we do not speak so loud and repeat information that the waiting room can here because that is a violation.

Electronic health records, or EHRs are fully electronic forms of patients charts and health history. This has helped to keep all patient information streamlined into a specific area, as well as cut down on paper waste (Office of the National Coordinator for Health Information, n.d.) Health care providers are

Exploits and backdoors are too numerous and ever-changing to hope to explicitly include in HIPAA guidelines, and for that reason developers need to make the extra effort to surpass them to prevent identity theft and other potential misuses of patient data for their actions as a professional to be considered

I am an emerging software and web engineer and an aspiring security specialist. I hold two years of technical training while simultaneously being a full time employee. In that time I have produced a HIPAA complaint web portal, established electronic reporting, and support a multitude of in-house applications. Being a trained biologist I have returned to school to get formal training on software

The Waterfall and Agile methods are amongst some of the most popular methods of software development.

New processes put the tested beta product into the end user 's hands for testing and user acceptance testing much sooner and allow the development teams to address items on the

The prototyping phase involves making critical decisions regarding the functionality, effectiveness, and appropriateness of the new system to be developed [Ambler, 2002]. It is part of the rudimentary phase of software development cycle, there can be significant cost of iteration if there are any major changes that are made to the system functionality after the design gets converted into code implementations or in a working model. In the development cycle, there are many instances during the process of software development when the stakeholders/clients change their requirements mid-way or the development team may have misinterpreted

Prototyping is the early sample of the program. The prototyping should be smaller to what the company want. The designers made the prototyping to see what the project looks like and are the missing pieces in the project. After that, the testing step.

Waterfall/Traditional Approach: The traditional approach is a linear approach to software development where project goals, scope and timeline are decided and finalized prior to commencement in project activities. A waterfall project consists of various stages and each stage begins only when the predecessor stage is commenced. The project plan is predefined and provides the framework for the project execution. There are several advantages of adopting a waterfall method. The waterfall method is simple and linear; therefore there is no overlap between different phases. The requirements and plan are rigid and there is an agreement among all parties on project deliverables which serves as the basis for planning, designing and monitoring. Having clear and predefined requirements and design ensures better quality and error tracking efficient as identifying specific errors at design phase is simpler that testing phase. Also, project team members can have prior knowledge of their requirements and thus prepare in advance for the active project. Along with the abovementioned advantages the waterfall method has a few drawbacks. The design and requirements are often based on assumptions and sometimes what seems feasible on paper runs into roadblocks during actual implementation. The requirements and specifications are frozen

A single definition of agile methodology in software development is not easily found. We should consider agile methodology as an umbrella under which various agile methodologies rest. I will define agile methodology as an alternative to traditional ‘heavyweight’, linear project management methodologies that is marked by an adherence to and reliance on the individual not as a replaceable part, constant interactions between the project team and the customer, adaptiveness, customer collaboration, and responsiveness to change throughout a product’s development, which is perpetual.

This is the most crucial phase as any misinterpretation at this stage may give rise to validation issues later.

It involves technical staff working with customers to find out about the application domain, the services that the system should provide and the system’s operational constraints. There is a variety of techniques can be used for analysing and designing software solution.