[Solved]: CarePoint Health is a medium-sized outpatient…

CarePoint Health is a medium-sized outpatient clinic, designed to care for the diverse patients in its urban surroundings. The clinic has just discovered through a routine security update that there have been several incidents of unauthorized access to patient information, exposing then to potential breaches of privacy. An internal audit revealed that some staff members have been sharing their login credentials, in addition to lack of adequate controls in place to monitor internal and external access to the electronic health record. As CarePoint Health’s privacy officer, you have been asked to assess current safeguards in place for the purpose of implementing more stringent safeguards to prevent future unauthorized access and ensure compliance with HIPAA regulations. Request for Action: You have been requested to analyze the current breach of privacy and safeguards in place for the purpose of making recommendations of measures that can be adopted to enhance privacy protection of patient health information. You need to focus in meeting compliance with the HIPAA Privacy Rule, taking a closer look at access control and monitoring processes. You need to respond to the following in your first discussion post: What key components of the HIPAA Privacy Rule need to be addressed? Provide recommendations on how you believe that CarePoint Health can improve their access controls and monitoring to prevent the reoccurrence of unauthorized access to patient information? What specific actions do you feel should be taken to ensure that privacy policies and procedures are being