2.1.6 Patient Privacy

HIPAA stands for ...

• Health Information Patient Protection Act

• Health Information Probability and Accountability Act

• Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act

• Helping Information Protection and Access Act

HIPAA was created in the 1990's.

• True

• False

HIPAA protects patients from ...

• having to tell their employers if they are vaccinated or not.

• medical staff disclosing their personal and medical information to others.

• having to tell random people if they have been to the doctor or not.

• medical staff helping them with their insurance.

If HIPAA is violated, the medical staff member could lose their job.

• True

• False

If the patient is under 18, the parents are not allowed to know medical information about them per HIPAA.

• True

• False

If a doctor is consulting another doctor about a patient (without using identifying information), HIPAA is being violated.

• True

• False

Medical staff is allowed to talk about insurance information/billing information, just not procedures and diagnoses, with other people.

• True

• False

It is okay to have a conversation about a patient in a public setting.

• True

• False

If you are married, your doctor can tell your medical information to your spouse, with or without your consent.

• True

• False

Patients should know their privacy rights when it comes to their medical information.

• True

• False