The Course Paper is meant to show evidence of the successful student’sunderstanding of the materials covered throughout the course. Thisteam-based work challenges you to apply the objectives in a way thatdemonstrates your understanding of these legal principles, as well asyour writing abilities. The Course Paper is a team project. The submission shall be either a MicrosoftWord file or an Adobe PDF file.

**INSTRUCTIONS**

Your fictitious healthcare company must create a privacy policy document of five total pages. The document shall include an introductory section, such as an “Executive Summary,” a “Preamble,” or an “Introduction.”

Thedocument shall also include the policy statements. The policies need tofocus on governing your company and its employees. This is where thework comes in. Your team needs to give evidence in the policy section ofyour knowledge gained in this course. In the assignment attachment, Idescribe the Course Paper requirements in a little more detail by usingan acceptable format for your policy document. That attachment is not meant to be your template.Rather, it is designed merely to reflect what a successful policydocument might look like in any given workplace. You will see in thatdocument that I simply tried to explain more about what the Course Papershould include by using a format that may help you understand how toorganize your paper, and understand what features this governancedocument should include.

Fictitious Company:
Bright HealthCare Inc. is New Hampshire based third party vendor company that handles the enrollments on behalf of the healthcare providers and retains the patient’s information to provide them health coverage.

1. The relationship between patient and care provider is based on trust. Patients must be able to trust that their care provider will protect their private information. Patients have a fundamental right to know that their information is safe with their healthcare provider and must be able to trust their care teams and hospitals with the most sensitive information about themselves and their children.
2.When that trust is violated and patients are victimized by the misuse of access to protected health information, they lose control of the most intimate details of their lives. The harm which snooping does is often hard to measure as it can extend from malicious gossip and material losses from identity theft or burglary to financial, physical, emotional, professional and social damage.
3.While patients may suffer personal, professional or criminal consequences if their data is stolen, whether as a result of a data breach or fraud, their loss of faith in healthcare providers can also discourage them from seeking help or giving full details of their condition. Therefore, a healthcare provider’s reputation for privacy can impact patient confidence, patients’ lives and care outcomes.

Note: Please make sure there is no plagiarism and privacy information should be for a healthcare company and include HIPAA. Please refer to the attached sample paper and please make sure the sample paper is not the exact template.