Tomer Yakov
LIB 1201
Professor Ian Beilin
Research Topic
My topic is concerning medical privacy laws and acts that are seen through out our legislator and state of NY. I will try to research concerning what is the meaning of these laws, what do they mean and what are the rights of patients pertaining to confidentiality and medical privacy laws. I will gain my base and foundation for this research via the use of research scholarly engines such as Google scholar. In addition I will use scholarly search banks such as LexisNexis and Ebsco host. My main focus after explaining what are the medical laws and regulations is to answer the following question: how to secure our medical information in mobile health-care communication systems? A mobile health care communication system which stands as the concept of mobile EHealth is defined as “the use of mobile telecommunication and multimedia technologies as they are integrated within increasingly mobile and wireless health care delivery systems and is part of a movement towards citizen-centered health service delivery”. This idea works as a concept of shared network of information. Privacy is a big concern regarding this system or concept because of the vulnerability of the system to allow patients private information to be viewed by other. Of course some system precautions were implanted by the hospitals or private clinics in order to limit the spread of information.I will supply many different ways of approaching this topic and I will supply the current accepted method of usage. I believe in my paper I will touch upon the idea of what is HIPAA (The Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act, also known as HIPAA, refers to a set of laws that dictate how medical information about a patient can be used) according to ehow.com. According to Online Journal of Issues in Nursing from Ebsco.com, and I quote” Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act (HIPAA) in 1996 to limit the ability of an employer to deny health insurance coverage to employees with preexisting medical conditions”.
