Career Analysis

Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act is the law passed by the American government to support and standardized the rules for medical transcription. There are many benefits for the people under this act and helps in living the life in a better way. In 1996 American government realized the need to have some amendments in the field of medical transcription and therefore HIPAA came into existence.

Let us discuss in brief about the HIPAA Medical transcription services:

• Companies started facing problems in America to outsource the medical transcription facilities. Transcription work in the field of medical science spread at a rapid pace and become the opportunity for the hospitals and medicine companies to earn profits. Every company follows the rules of HIPAA before providing the transcription services. The act gave strength to the people to get the services of medical transcription without any confusion.
• Health care industry has to understand the rules for the purpose of providing efficient services and any failure can lead to violation of the act. Many health officers are sent by government to train the people for providing the services according to HIPAA act. In initial stages when act came into force and became law companies, clinics and hospitals were not aware of the facts in the act but gradually all rules were understood by the people and awareness among the public lead to accept the rules firmly.
• HIPAA helps in securing of the data during electronic transaction. Electronic data was utilized in a better way and outsourcing of the medical transcription became easy. Many centers were opened in America in all major cities to provide the officers which can train the people of this field in accordance with the act and help in keeping the check on the health care industry.
• Any type of data which was required to be kept safely and for long period of time was maintained by the companies, doctors and hospitals using this act. In the starting there were not many employees to handle the responsibility of maintaining the HIPAA transcription and this created job opportunities to large number of people across the country.
• HIPAA helped in reducing the efforts in paper work and helped in directing the people towards technology. There is also the provision of providing the medical facilities to the employees which lose their job due to some problem. Some privileges are provided to the people of America through this act which help in caring about their rights.

This act proved to be a successful and people accepted it with smiling faces.