HIPAA

What is a Notice of Privacy Practices?

• The patient's employer

• Statement of the patient's diagnosis

• Statement explaining emergency preparedness

• Statement signed by the patient that describes how private health information is protected

Choose all the times in which a patient's privacy is not protected:

• If access to records from a nursing home are needed to ensure that the providers are caring for residents properly and the facility is clean

• When there is a need to protect the public from epidemic or cases of sexually transmitted diseases or cases of HIV

• When police reports about a gunshot wound are required

• When there are concerns about child abuse

• When the patient's spouse wants the records

An incidental disclosure is:

• secondary use that cannot be prevented, is limited in nature, and occurs as a result of another use or disclosure that is permitted

• something that accidentally happens

• something the patient signs at the beginning of their appointment

Under HIPAA, a patient has the right to request an amendment to his/her medical record, and the hospital has the duty to comply.

• True

• False

The monetary penalties for improperly disclosing patient health information can be as high as:

• $250,000

• $1.5 million dollars

• $125,000

• $500,000

What is PHI?

• Protected Health Identifier

• Patient Health Insurance

• Protected Health Information

• Personal Health Information

HIPAA is needed for:

• Protection of personal health information and our rights with respect to that information and to prevent fraud abuse

• Ability to provide health insurance to everyone and cut the cost of insurance

• Improvement of the economy in the Unites States and to eliminate the need for health care insurance

• Prevention of infections and to lower the cost of prescription drugs

Protected Health Information, PHI can include which of the following:

• Name

• Date of birth

• Medical record number (MRN)

• Reason for the visit to the doctor

The HIPAA Privacy Rule protects all PHI, electronic, verbal and written.

• True

• False

What is a privacy breach?

• A team member fails to maintain confidentiality by discussing patient health information on social media

• Lab results are sent to the wrong patient or recipient

• A laptop or Smartphone containing electronic PHI is lost or stolen – and the device is not encrypted

• It's not important