Small Town Dental Clinic Case Study

Publish Your Policies for the New Clinic
The Small Town Dentist clinic follows HIPAA security and privacy laws. This means that we treat personal health information as Protected Health Information (PHI) or digital known as Electronic Protected Health Information (ePHI). We should have an ‘Acceptable Use Policy’. The purpose of this policy is to outline the acceptable use of computer equipment at the organization. This also incorporates rules to protect the employee and the company. This also protects the computer systems and the networks from virus attacks, compromise of network. In order to better protect the PHI, we should also have an ‘email policy’. This policy makes sure the email system is used properly and users are alerted of what

We need to have ‘Equal employment opportunity policy’ in place to ensure all employees or applicants are granted equal employment opportunities disregard their race, color, religion, sex, etc. We need to also ensure definite employment classification to give the employees a clear understanding about their employment status and benefits, therefore we need an ‘employment classification policy’ in place. We need to clearly determine and provide all the information to the employees regarding their work days, paydays and pay advances. Not just about their pay but about their meal break hours, overtime compensations, payroll deductions and performance evaluations. They should be informed about their vacation policy and sick leave and personal leave policy. Finally it is also important to give them heads up about the termination

To ensure we provide the training required for the smooth functioning of the organization, it is always better to provide focused training to different levels of employees. This can be more effective as training is conducted to a specific audience on security related services and knowledge to ensure they perform better. Also providing the employees with snacks and other comfort food during this training can help win the audience over, which can lead to a better audience. This can overall benefit the organization to keep the security of the PHI intact which in turn helps follow the HIPAA security and privacy