DISCUSSION QUESTION

"Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act and Technologies" Please respond to the following:

• From the first and second e-Activities, analyze the importance of the enactment of the Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act (HIPAA), and appraise the overall impact of HIPAA on patients' medical records.

• Suggest key ways in which health care administrations may improve data and information quality, and decrease data and information errors. Provide at least one example to support your response.

DISCUSSTION QUESTION

Hacking into Harvard

Read Case 2.1: Hacking into Harvard, located on page 71 in your textbook. As applicants began to defend themselves against the penalties handed out by the business schools, they appealed to both consequentialist and nonconsequentialist criteria to support their actions. Some responded by pointing out that their intentions were never malicious, while others argued they did not think checking their application statuses would cause any real harm. Review the case study and analyze the actions of the students from a Kantian perspective. Consider whether the actions taken by the hackers were permissible according the standard of universal acceptability.