PresentationHealth information privacy

HSS261 HIPAA Privacy and Security Rules

You are the hospital's first person in this role. That detail sets the deck's job: not to explain the rules, but to explain why the board should care about them.

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Last reviewed · August 25, 2026

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Maren Caldwell

MSN, RN, CNE

Medical-surgical nursing, pharmacology and NCLEX preparation

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Dr. Tessa Redmond

DNP, RN, CNE

Evidence-based practice and clinical education

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The first compliance officer has to justify the post

Being the first person in the role changes the deck's purpose. A board that has employed a compliance officer for a decade needs an update; a board appointing its first one needs to understand what the risk actually is and why it now requires a named person. That points the presentation at consequence rather than at rule recitation: what a breach costs in notification obligations, penalties, litigation and reputation, and how e-health services expand the surface where a breach can occur, through remote access, personal devices, third-party platforms and data flowing to vendors who are themselves regulated. Lead with the exposure the board is accountable for and the rules become the answer rather than the subject. Lead with the exposure the board is accountable for and the rules become the answer rather than the subject, which is a far easier presentation to hold their attention through.

The brief also asks for the ethical importance of privacy, confidentiality and disclosure, and those three are distinct rather than a single idea. Privacy is the patient's interest in controlling information about themselves; confidentiality is the obligation the clinician accepts in exchange for that information being shared; and disclosure is the act, which may be permitted, required or prohibited depending on the circumstance. The ethical argument worth making to a board is instrumental as well as principled: patients who do not trust confidentiality withhold information, and withheld information produces worse clinical decisions, so confidentiality is a clinical quality issue and not only a legal one. Then the final section on professional judgement should turn on the hard cases rather than the easy ones, since mandatory reporting duties, situations where disclosure is permitted but not required, and the curiosity-driven record access that most breaches actually consist of are where judgement is genuinely exercised.

Likely learning objectives

Pitch a compliance case to a board that has never had one.
Distinguish privacy, confidentiality and disclosure.
Make the instrumental as well as the principled argument for confidentiality.
Locate professional judgement in the hard cases rather than the obvious ones.

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APA Format, word doc, Must be Quality work, 0% plagiarism, No grammar mistakes, formatted cited work and on time. Turn it in report will be checked. Individual Project in Powerpoint Technology, Culture, and Quality Wed, 5/3/ Chief executive officer (CEO) Beranger has recognized that you are an expert in regards to the Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act (HIPAA) and would like you to hire you as Silver Creek Hospital’s first HIPAA Compliance Officer. As you begin your new role, CEO Beranger discusses with you the demands of e-health services and applications and the privacy, confidentiality, and ethical concerns that go along with it. She asks that you construct a PowerPoint presentation that you will present to the board of directors with 10–12 slides that explain the ethical importance of privacy, confidentiality, and disclosure and how the HIPAA Privacy and Security Rules protect patient information. CEO Beranger also believes this is a good time to refresh the board with ethical training and asks that you also discuss, in 2–4 slides, the importance of ethics and professional judgment when dealing with confidentiality issues and mandatory disclosure. 1)10 slides that explain the ethical importance of privacy, confidentiality, and disclosure and how the HIPAA Privacy and Security Rules protect patient information 2) 2 slides that discuss the importance of ethics and professional judgment when dealing with confidentiality issues and mandatory disclosure. Assignment Details For this Assignment, you are going to write a paper explaining how you developed your theory through the four stages (theorizing, syntax, theory testing, and evaluation). Your paper must be 3 to 5 pages, not including the title and reference pages. To view the Grading Rubric for this Assignment, please visit the Grading Rubrics section of the Course Resources. Assignment Requirements Before finalizing your work, you should: Minimum requirement of at least 5 sources of support be sure to read the Assignment description carefully (as displayed above); consult the Grading Rubric (under the Course Resources) to make sure you have included everything necessary; and utilize spelling and grammar check to minimize errors.

What the presentation requires

01A PowerPoint presentation of 10-12 slides for the board of directors.
02An explanation of the ethical importance of privacy, confidentiality and disclosure.
03How the HIPAA Privacy and Security Rules protect patient information.
04A further 2-4 slides on the importance of ethics and professional judgement in confidentiality issues and mandatory disclosure.
05APA formatting, quality writing free of grammatical error, submitted as a Word or PowerPoint document and checked for originality.