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Healthcare Policy Assignment Marie Michel NR451 Week 3 Healthcare Policy Assignment The Bill Bill Name : Overdose Prevention and Patient Safety Act Bill Number: H.R. 2062 Bill Summary ⮚The ... Overdose Prevention and Patient Safety Act is a bill which aims at putting patient safety to a robust level. ⮚Its primary goal is protecting patients’ confidentiality and their medical records. It thus intends to amend the Public Health Service Act in order to achieve its goal. ⮚It was introduced to Congress on 3rd April, 2019. It is sponsored by Earl Blumenauer, Oregon’s third congressional district representative. Impact on professional nursing standards Merits ❖The bill, like any other, has certain merits and demerits in areas it affects. ❖Some of the benefits include strengthening accountability and health insurance for the purposes of payment, treatment and other health care operations. ❖It furthermore eases the restrictions on the sharing of patients’ health records with addictions. This intends to ensure safety of the patient since inappropriately sharing their health records would detriment their healthcare safety. Merits Continuation ❖The bill ensures avoiding of disclosure of patients’ health records with substance use disorder without medical staff’s written consent. It thus improves the patient safety ensuring that no research or such other evolutions would be done using the patient’s records without getting a consent from a medical staff. ❖This bill would allow better decisions in understanding potential consequences of accessing patients’ records since the doctors would make better informed decisions than just allowing patients to do that on their own. Merits continuation ❖The bill, moreover, ensures that criminal penalties for substance abuse disorder records violations would support the structure of HIPAA. ❖This bill will also enhance privacy and thus prohibit the use of SUD information in civil and criminal prosecution. The patients are thus protected against discrimination caused by sharing of medical information to with landlords and employers of the substance abuse patients. Demeri [Show More]

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