Medical Ethics and Terminology

What is HIPAA?

• A federal law protecting patients' privacy

• Law protecting patients' rights to make decisions about their healthcare

• • Set of principles dealing with what is morally right or wrong 

• unnecessary exposure of an individual or revealing personal information about an individual without consent

What does HIPAA stand for?

• Health Insurance Privacy Act of America

• Health Insurance Privacy Access Act

• Health Insurance Portability & Accountability Act

• Health Insurance Public Accountability Act

What is PHI?

• Private Health Informatics

• Protected Health Information

• Personal Heart Infatuations

• Public Health Information

All of these parties can legitimately access your PHI EXCEPT

• Your doctor

• Your insurance company while handling a claim

• You

• Your spouse (no form has been signed)

• Set of principles dealing with what is morally right or wrong 

• Morals

• Opinions

• Ethics

• Scope of practice

Document allowing people to state what measures should or should not be used to prolong life if their condition is terminal

• Living will

• Patient's Bill of Rights

• DNR

• Power of Attorney

• A document permitting an individual to appoint another person to make any decisions regarding health care if the individual is unable to make those decisions

• Living will

• Patient's Bill of Rights

• HIPAA

• Power of Attorney

• Patient’s instructions regarding what medical treatment they want or do not want 

• Scope of Practice

• Advance Directive

• DNR

• Torts

A law that says that every adult must be informed of their right to make decisions regarding medical care, including right to refuse treatment

• DNR

• HIPAA

• PDSA
  

• IRS

• Permission is granted by a person of sound mind of legal age after the procedure and all risks have been told in terms the patient understands 

• Living will

• Informed consent

• Patient's Bill of Rights

• Advance Directive