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PROTECTED HEALTH INFORMATION 2
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
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
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
patient’s information. Confidentiality includes the state of keeping details private or secure. The
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,
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
confidentiality, privacy, and security breaches linked to social media usage. Nurses should
refrain from posting information on the happenings of the working healthcare environment.
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
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-
Research, 19(4), e104.
Drolet, B. C., Marwaha, J. S., Hyatt, B., Blazar, P. E., & Lifchez, S. D. (2017). Electronic
Edemekong, P., Annamaraju, P., & Haydel, M. (2020). Health Insurance Portability and
Accountability Act. StatPearls.
https://www.totalhipaa.com/hipaa-sanction-policies/