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    This document discusses protected health information and best practices for using social media in healthcare. It defines protected health information as any medical record information used to identify individuals, including medical histories, test results, and insurance details. The HIPAA privacy rule relates to all aspects of protected health information and focuses on administrative, physical and technical security to ensure patient data is safe. The document also discusses the roles of nurses and healthcare teams in ensuring privacy, security and confidentiality of electronic health information. It notes that healthcare organizations have implemented training on social media policies and security measures to prevent breaches of patient health information online.

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    This document discusses protected health information and best practices for using social media in healthcare. It defines protected health information as any medical record information used to identify individuals, including medical histories, test results, and insurance details. The HIPAA privacy rule relates to all aspects of protected health information and focuses on administrative, physical and technical security to ensure patient data is safe. The document also discusses the roles of nurses and healthcare teams in ensuring privacy, security and confidentiality of electronic health information. It notes that healthcare organizations have implemented training on social media policies and security measures to prevent breaches of patient health information online.

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    This document discusses protected health information and best practices for using social media in healthcare. It defines protected health information as any medical record information used to identify individuals, including medical histories, test results, and insurance details. The HIPAA privacy rule relates to all aspects of protected health information and focuses on administrative, physical and technical security to ensure patient data is safe. The document also discusses the roles of nurses and healthcare teams in ensuring privacy, security and confidentiality of electronic health information. It notes that healthcare organizations have implemented training on social media policies and security measures to prevent breaches of patient health information online.

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    This document discusses protected health information and best practices for using social media in healthcare. It defines protected health information as any medical record information used to identify individuals, including medical histories, test results, and insurance details. The HIPAA privacy rule relates to all aspects of protected health information and focuses on administrative, physical and technical security to ensure patient data is safe. The document also discusses the roles of nurses and healthcare teams in ensuring privacy, security and confidentiality of electronic health information. It notes that healthcare organizations have implemented training on social media policies and security measures to prevent breaches of patient health information online.

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    Healthcare is positively going digital, giving the fact that social media is becoming one of

    the most vital healthcare resources. However, there is a need to establish guidelines that will be

    implemented to ensure social media does not cause adverse impacts on healthcare. This staff

    update will explore the best social media practices in healthcare to ensure it does not impact

    adverse effects due to confidentiality, privacy, and security breaches.

    Protected health information (PHI) refers to any medical record information used in

    individual identification. It includes medical histories, test results, demographic data, insurance

    details, and any other healthcare information (Drolet et al., 2017). However, the HIPAA privacy

    rule relates to all protected health information aspects. HIPAA focuses on administrative,

    physical, and technical security where it ensures patient's data is safe. Likewise, it protects

    patients' privacy by hindering the necessary health information disclosure and allows patients to

    acquire copies of their health details. HIPAA ensures affected individuals acquire notifications in

    case of breached health information.

    Nurses and the interdisciplinary team have a crucial role in informatics, focusing on

    electronic health information and patient care technology aspects such as aligning their best

    practices with clinical workflows and reducing medical errors and expenses. Security, privacy,

    and confidentiality aspects are essential for protecting sensitive electronic health details within a

    health organization. Privacy entails keeping an individual's health information from being

    disclosed. In the healthcare sector, the interdisciplinary team should enhance the privacy of how

    technology is used in a healthcare facility (Bender et al., 2017). However, security involves the

    protection of an individual, information, or property such as installing passwords to protect

    patient’s information. Confidentiality includes the state of keeping details private or secure. The

    interdisciplinary collaboration safeguards sensitive electronic health information by enhancing


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    privacy and security measures. The protection aids in reducing risks of patient's information

    exposure to wrong hands. Likewise, it builds trust between the patients and health organizations,

    thus increasing patients' care services.

    The evidence-based approaches, such as electronic health records, aid in mitigating

    patients, and health care staff risks linked to sensitive electronic health information. These

    approaches assist in increasing patient care and reducing any health information breaches.

    However, the inter-professional team members need to be aware of the sanction policy, financial

    penalties, and best social media practices required for healthcare aspects. Several healthcare-

    associated cases have been reported with social media misuse of clients' health information

    disclosure. Sadly, the number of clinicians who have encountered termination due to this misuse

    has not been revealed. Healthcare providers and organizations need to analyze how they collect

    and secure acquired data from social media tools. Sanctions are offered based on the type of

    violation, and the interdisciplinary teams involved receive civil and criminal penalties. However,

    financial penalties are offered from roughly 100 to 250,000 dollars per offense, such as

    inappropriate social media usage (Edemekong, Annamaraju & Haydel, M, 2020).

    Healthcare organizations have impacted effective evidence-based strategies to prevent

    confidentiality, privacy, and security breaches linked to social media usage. Nurses should

    refrain from posting information on the happenings of the working healthcare environment.

    However, healthcare organizations have implemented health professionals' training on social

    media policy relating to patients' health information. Network security improvement and

    performance of HIPAA security risk analysis aid to prevent data breaches in the healthcare sector

    (Bender et al., 2017).


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    References

    Bender, J. L., Cyr, A. B., Arbuckle, L., & Ferris, L. E. (2017). Ethics and privacy implications of

    using the internet and social media to recruit participants for health research: A privacy-

    by-design framework for online recruitment. Journal of Medical Internet

    Research, 19(4), e104.

    Drolet, B. C., Marwaha, J. S., Hyatt, B., Blazar, P. E., & Lifchez, S. D. (2017). Electronic

    communication of protected health information: privacy, security, and HIPAA

    compliance. The Journal of hand surgery, 42(6), 411-416.

    Edemekong, P., Annamaraju, P., & Haydel, M. (2020). Health Insurance Portability and

    Accountability Act. StatPearls.

    https://www.totalhipaa.com/hipaa-sanction-policies/

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