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The class discussion is not needed. We had to create a video on Protection patient privacy. This is an assignment is to create a risk assessment on Pete Pete compromising Winnie’s patient records, the hospital administrator tasks you with identifying other potential risks that the hospital.

You are tasked to analyze the use of information technology resources. Your response to this assessment will be to write policy statements that address specific issues related to patient health care records and align with HIPAA regulations. Assess threats related to issues presented in the case study that United General Hospital must address.

United General’s hospital administrator reviews the hospital’s policy manual and discovers that it inadequately addresses the area of patient records. The hospital administrator tasks you with reviewing the hospital policy manual and reporting on the thoroughness of its coverage of patient records. After a review of the policy manual, you report that the coverage of patient records is sparse and outdated. The hospital administrator then asks you to update the policy manual.

Risk Assessment

Because Pete compromised Winnie’s patient records, the hospital administrator tasks you with identifying other potential risks that the hospital and the primary care physicians may need to address to protect patient records.

Your risk assessment should:

Identify risks to both electronic and paper patient records, and recommend remedies United General can put in place to protect the records from compromise.

Create policy statements that comply with the Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act of 1996 (HIPAA) regulations addressing access to and disclosure of electronic and paper patient records.

Describe relevant training topics that will educate the staff on accessing and disclosing patient records.