Tang P C
Palo Alto Medical Clinic, California, USA.
Physician Exec. 2000 May-Jun;26(3):50-5.
Physician executives need to prepare their organizations for the next great system-wide challenge--HIPAA, the Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act of 1996. Organizations will have to plan for and execute a compliance program with the same vigor and system-wide participation as they did for Y2K. This article provides a brief overview of HIPAA, emphasizing the privacy and security components that will be the biggest challenge for physician executives. Physician leaders must become actively involved in the policymaking process to ensure a balanced approach to protecting the confidentiality of health information, while giving providers optimal access to data to make informed decisions on patient care and management. Ignoring HIPAA is simply not an option.
医师管理人员需要让他们的机构为下一个重大的全系统挑战做好准备——《健康保险流通与责任法案》（HIPAA），即1996年的《医疗保险可携性及责任法案》。各机构将不得不像应对千年虫问题那样，以同样的力度和全系统参与度来规划并执行一项合规计划。本文简要概述了HIPAA，重点强调了对医师管理人员来说将是最大挑战的隐私和安全部分。医师领导者必须积极参与决策过程，以确保在保护健康信息机密性方面采取平衡的方法，同时为医疗服务提供者提供最佳的数据访问权限，以便他们就患者护理和管理做出明智的决策。忽视HIPAA根本不是一个可行的选择。
