Health Information Management

Legislative and Policy Changes Related to Health Information Management
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Legislative and Policy Changes Related to Health Information Management
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Information management is essential in the medical care field. It involves storing and tracking the crucial information from the patients that is essential for making decisions regarding the most appropriate medications or advice to offer to the patients. It also helps in getting the statistics regarding the occurrence of the certain indecent in hospitals among the patients (Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality, n.d). However, the monitoring of the information management procedures might become so difficult due to the ongoing legislative and policy changes related to Health Information Management. Thus, the manager concerned with health information have to ensure that the following are put under their consideration.
There should be an agreement between the hospital and the patients (among the participants) in the activities relating to data exchange. This must be properly followed to ensure that the protected information can be accessed by only authorized users in the institution. This can go beyond what is provided by the technology when it comes to the security of the date after leaving the original entity. This concept is among the core regulations of the HIPAA (Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality, n.d). The standardization of such t…