Health care organizations are required to protect information from any unauthorized user access. This necessitates the organization to implement role-based access control. HIPPA regulations require a health care organization to determine and manage which users have access to specific information that is based on the user's function within the organization. Since this is a requirement of HIPPA the organization will have no option but to ensure that they do implement users access for information based on a user’s functions (Miller & Payne, 2016). Privacy is of great concern for HIPPA and HITECH, it is for this reason that health care organizations are required to ensure that they only share the information that is relevant to a particular user. Patient information should not be accessible by all who have access to the system. This will cut down on the intentional or inadvertent viewing, modification, or deleting of files. Roles are created based on the organization structure. This makes it easy to give and restrict access to the system. Each role will have its own access privileges that are minimum requirements for an employee with the specified role. Using HIPPA and HITECH an organization is able to determine the access privileges that it can assign to the different roles that are found in the organization.
The best role-based access that can be implemented is one that is mapped to the organization's structure. This makes it easy to determine the role of a user based on where they are placed within the organization. For the IT staff, it is also easy for them to manage user roles. All users with a particular designation will be limited or granted access for certain information (Lacroix & Hamilton, 2017). The permissions that are granted to an employee are based on their role within the organization. This makes it easy to ensure that an employee will only be allowed to access the information that is necessary for them to perform their duty.
References
Lacroix, P., & Hamilton, S.-L. (2017). Privacy and the Hi-Tech Healthcare Professional Health Professionals' Education in the Age of Clinical Information Systems, Mobile Computing and Social Networks (pp. 91-110): Elsevier.
Miller, A. S., & Payne, B. R. (2016). Health IT Security: An Examination of Modern Challenges in Maintaining HIPAA and HITECH Compliance.
