Advanced Directives & Patient Rights

The health information which identifies the individual is

• EHR

• PHI

• PPE

• EHR

A person or entity that performs a function or activity on behalf of a Covered Entity.

• agent

• administrative assistant

• medical office

• business associate

All are reasons for HIPAA except

• Establishes a Federal floor of safeguards to protect the confidentiality of medical information

• Allows patients to make informed choices when seeking care and reimbursement for care.

• Privacy protection for individual health information.

• States a patient's wishes when unable to speak for themselves.

A Durable Power of Attorney ALWAYS outweighs a Living Will under any circumstances.

• true

• false

An entity that electronically transmits any health information.

• covered entity

• business associate

• agent

List 3 ways in which a person can indicate that they wish to donate organs or parts of their body for transplant or medical research.

With the durable power of attorney, the document allows a person called a/an ______________ to name a/an_____________ to make decisions about medical treatments and prolonging life in the even they are unable to make decisions or communicate because of sever illness or injury.

• agent/principal

• principal/physician

• principal/agent

• agent/physician

In what year was the Uniform Anatomical Gift Act enacted?

• 1975

• 2010

• 1968

• 1955

A living will and a durable power of attorney are examples of...

• advanced directives

• covered entities

• malpractice

• criminal law

Created stricter rules and harsher penalties for those who are non-compliant in HIPAA.

• Uniform Anatomical Gift Act

• HITECH Act

• Compliance and Administrative Act

• Uniform technichal and adminitrative act