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Introduction

Health is a crucial aspect of one's life, as it allows the performance of many activities.

However, information technology contributes too many sectors, such as healthcare, to ensure

quality medical services. Observation of regulatory measures and security and privacy laws in

healthcare information systems enables effective operation and design of services. Likewise, risk

management in information systems should be implemented when subcontracting information

technology aspects. Regulatory requirements, security and privacy laws, and monitoring

compliance play a significant role in healthcare organizations' outsourcing information

technology functions.

Regulatory requirements

Regulatory requirements and information technology impact a healthcare organization by

ensuring patient quality care services. A regulatory requirement is a government entity rule that

imposes on the industry. These regulations provide the companies govern business, workers, and

their interactions with clients and other aspects. The regulation requirements include policy,

standards, laws, and specifications that govern a particular institution. However, regulatory

requirements directly affect a healthcare institution's information technology when outsourcing

the required IT function. Outsourcing services are highly increasing in healthcare organizations

in business, clinical, or hospitality services. The outsourcing of information technology strategies

causes a significant improvement in healthcare delivery services. Information technology plays a

crucial role in every healthcare organization as it ensures effective healthcare delivery services

and quality care. The regulatory requirements impact the implementation of information

technology in any healthcare institution.

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Federal, HIPAA, and HITECH act are crucial regulatory requirements that affect

information technology directors when outsourcing their healthcare institution function. These

regulations play an essential aspect in the healthcare industry and insurance coverage. The bodies

protect the public from health risks and offer good public health and welfare programs. HITECH

act entails the health information technology for economic and clinical health act (Kiel, 2016).

This act ensures the adoption and implementation of crucial health information technology.

Likewise, it provides healthcare providers to analyze the outsourced information technology

function to observe privacy and security rules. Federal regulation is a government strategy that

ensures healthcare patients acquire quality care services. Additionally, it focuses on regulatory

monitoring compliance when outsourcing a complex information technology function. HIPAA

involves the Federal Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act that affects the

healthcare industry's information technology (Kiel, 2016). In outsourcing the identified IT

function, the HIPAA act ensures the protection of confidential patient healthcare details. These

regulatory requirements ensure the outsourced detailed IT function meets the healthcare

organization policies and security and privacy laws.

Security and privacy laws

Security and privacy laws affect the outsourced information technology function in

design and operation strategies in ensuring high integrity, confidentiality, and availability.

Security aspects are crucial for any healthcare organization as it provides the staff members and

patients are free from any danger or threat. However, health institutions maintain high standards

of privacy primarily upon the patient's information. Information technology outsourcing includes

contracting outside vendors to perform certain IT functions such as data entry, network

management, operations, and data center operations. Security policies such as organizational,
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system-specific, and issue-specific ensure the outsourced IT function's practical design and

operations. The corporate laws provide the outsourced IT functions according to the industry

regulations and maintain high integrity. The system-specific policies ensure the outsourced IT

performs the required healthcare task at high integrity (Abbas & Khan, 2015). This policy

controls the information technology function and allows effective performance. Additionally,

issue-specific systems provide the outsourced IT to address a particular issue at a high standard.

These security laws ensure the outsourced IT function is according to the institution's

requirements and meets the business scope, needs, goals, and responsibilities.

Privacy laws affect the outsourced IT function as they ensure high confidentiality

maintenance upon their operations and designs (Abbas & Khan, 2015). Privacy laws deal with

personal healthcare information, regulations, and the implementation of personally identifiable

information. However, these laws govern one's personal information and ensure effective

collection and storage services. These privacy laws allow the achievement of secrecy,

anonymity, and solitude in these outsourced IT functions' operations (Abbas & Khan, 2015).

Likewise, the rules affect their availability by ensuring the information technology offers high

standard services in the healthcare organization.

Role of IT in monitoring compliance

Information technology and monitoring compliance play significant roles in a healthcare

institution by ensuring high patient care services. Information technology involves the study,

design, development, implementation, and management of computer-based information

applications. Information technology plays a crucial in healthcare institutions by ensuring high

productivity and efficiency levels. However, industries' compliance monitoring involves quality
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assurance tests to analyze their business operations in achieving their regulatory and internal

processes (Gibson & Igonor, 2020). These monitoring services ensure the healthcare

organization examines its operation services and areas of improvement.

Information technology plays a significant role in monitoring compliance services with

the industry's risk management policies and plans when outsourcing the identified IT function.

However, risk management entails the identification, assessment, and control of organizational

threats. The risk management policies and procedures allow risk identification, analysis,

evaluation, and review when outsourcing the identified IT functions (Gibson & Igonor, 2020).

These policies ensure the outsourced information technology will not impact any risk to the

organization. The information technology implementation allows significant monitoring services

of the outsourced identified IT function using the risk management policies. The use of

Telehealth, Electronic medical record systems (EMRs), and remote patient monitoring (RPMI)

technologies offer effective monitoring services on patient care progress and ensure observation

of security and privacy laws and regulatory requirements. The information technology aids in

legal and reputational risk assessment of the outsourced Information technology function and

ensure they adhere to the institution's policies and standards of conduct.

Conclusion

In conclusion, regulatory requirements, security and privacy laws, and monitoring

compliance play a significant role in healthcare organizations' outsourcing information

technology function. Regulatory requirements and information technology impact a healthcare

organization by ensuring patient quality care services. The regulatory requirements impact the

implementation of information technology in any healthcare institution. Federal, HIPAA, and

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HITECH act are crucial regulatory requirements that affect information technology when

outsourcing its function in a healthcare institution. Security and privacy laws affect the

outsourced information technology function in design and operation strategies in ensuring high

integrity, confidentiality, and availability. Information technology outsourcing includes

contracting outside vendors to perform certain IT functions such as data entry, network

management, operations, and data center operations. Security policies such as organizational,

system-specific, and issue-specific ensure the outsourced IT function's practical design and

operations. Privacy laws affect the outsourced IT function as they provide high confidentiality

maintenance upon their processes and procedures. However, information technology plays a

significant role in monitoring compliance services with the industry's risk management policies

and plan when outsourcing the identified IT function. The use of Telehealth, Electronic medical

record systems (EMRs), and remote patient monitoring (RPMI) technologies offer effective

monitoring services on patient care progress and ensure observation of security and privacy laws

and regulatory requirements. Regulatory requirements, security and privacy laws, and

information technology in monitoring compliance play a crucial role in outsourcing identified

information technology functions.

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References

Abbas, A., & Khan, S. U. (2015). e-Health cloud: privacy concerns and mitigation strategies.

In Medical Data Privacy Handbook (pp. 389-421). Springer, Cham.

Gibson, D., & Igonor, A. (2020). Managing risk in information systems. Jones & Bartlett

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Kiel, J. M., Ciamacco, F. A., & Steines, B. T. (2016). Privacy and data security: HIPAA and

HITECH. In Healthcare information management systems (pp. 437-449). Springer,

Cham.