To date, a total of 804 large breaches of protected health information (PHI) affecting over 29.2 million patient’s records have been reported to the Department of Health and Human Services since 2009.

You are the Corporate Compliance Officer for your health organization and you have just been notified that an unknown party has “hacked” the main computer server and your organization’s PHI has been breached by the theft of several facility laptop computers. Over 5,000 of the patients your organization serves are impacted. As a result, you must explain to the Senior Leadership, the Board of Directors, the affected patients, and the public [a] what you plan to do about the breach and [b] howyou plan to prevent this from reoccurring.

In your report, you must include the following:

1. Define breach of PHI by the federal government’s standards including what federal laws dictate the health care organization’s responsibility to protect electronic health information.
2.    Explain to Leadership and the Board how this breach was allowed to occur. In other words, what went wrong and why.
3.    Define what course of action should be taken to notify the Individual patients affected and the public of this breach that would incur the least amount of panic.  Include any federally mandated course of action.
4.    Develop an action plan [including safeguards] to prevent a PHI Breach from reoccurring at your health organization. Include both electronic and paper safeguards.

5. In answering these questions,

• include any pertinent laws discussed during the class.
• This final exam should not be more than 6 pages not including the title and references pages.
• APA standards are required including the appropriate in-text citations.
• A minimum of four scholarly references with in-text citations[textbook does not apply] must be used.
• Re-state each question in its entirety as a heading for each answer.
• A minimum of four scholarly references with in-text citations

Assignment #2

The costs for health care have risen dramatically and are expected to continue to rise. While Medicare is a public insurance program that provides coverage to almost everyone who is 65 and older, it only covers a portion of health care expenses. In fact, the authors of your textbook note that “if current trends continue, by 2030 half of those aged 65 and older will spend more than 25{0e601fc7fe3603dc36f9ca2f49ef4cd268b5950ef1bbcf1f795cc00e94cdd119} of their income on medical bills and insurance premiums” (Markson & Stein, 2012).

After reading Chapter 11 in your textbook and watching “Aging America and Healthcare Reform,” please address each of the following:

1. Compare and contrast the services provided to older individuals under Medicare Part A and Medicare Part B.
2. Compare and contrast the health care services provided under Medicare versus Medicaid. Be sure to address how each program is funded, what they cover, who qualifies for them, and what role each plays in paying for health care of the elderly population.
3. Discuss the current funding for Medicare and why there is debate regarding the program.
4. What changes (if any) do you think that there will be in the Medicare program over the next 20 years?
5. Do you believe that the eligibility requirements should be changed in order to receive the health services provided by Medicare? Why or why not?

Your initial post should be at least 250 words in length. Support your claims with examples from the required material(s) and/or other scholarly resources, and properly cite any references.

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