Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act regulation are divided into three parts:,”Privacy regulations-Establish patient’s rights with regard to their own information. These rights include access to records, accounting of disclosures,and communication of health information Security regulations-Established to ensure the confidentiality of protected health information (PHI)Transaction standards-Establish a common set of rules for transmitting claimsAt the pharmacy level
staff must record the facility’s acknowledgment of the HIPAA standards for each patient.This is maintained either in a records book or electronically through the credit card key pad found at each register”