Worksheets2.1.6 Patient Privacy
Total questions: 20
Worksheet time: 10mins
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.
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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.
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False
It is okay to have a conversation about a patient in a public setting.
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False
If you are married, your doctor can tell your medical information to your spouse, with or without your consent.
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False
Patients should know their privacy rights when it comes to their medical information.
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False
What is Ethics?
A branch that deals with values relating to human conduct, considering rightness or wrongness.
An intellectual and practical activity encompassing the systematic study of the structure and behaviour of the physical and natural world.
The study of the physical features of the earth and its atmosphere, and of human activity as it affects and is affected by these.
The study of the fundamental nature of knowledge, reality, and existence, especially when considered as an academic discipline.
An example of behaving inmorally.
Play with my friends cheating
Take care of my environment
Cause harm to another human being for revenge
Respect my colleagues
What are the main purposes of ethics?
Guide us to make a positive impact through our decisions and actions
Be in peace with my community, following my values.
Have fun with my friends and my family
Socialize with my neighbors
A doctor emails an 8-year old child's mother about his MRI scan. Was HIPAA violated?
Yes
No
A women comes in to the doctor's office to get a blood test. A week later the doctor calls her cell phone and her husband picks up. The doctor shares the results to the women's husband. Was HIPAA violated?
Yes
No
A man tells his therapist he is thinking of harming others and the therapist contacts the authorities. Was HIPAA violated?
Yes
No
A woman tested positive for COVID. Her doctor reports her illness to the local department of public health. Was HIPAA violated?
Yes
No
Professionals can disclose PHI to provide information for legal proceedings.
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False
Which of the following is NOT a violation of HIPAA?
A receptionist at a clinic gives a father who calls in the times his 22 year-old son came in for an appointment.
An employer who calls the doctor to verify health information provided by the employee to receive health benefits and time off.
The doctor calls public health services to notify that a patient has contracted a very contagious viral infection.
Two doctors discuss the case of a patient in detail at a restaurant in a private booth but unintentionally are overheard by other people.
Read the following scenario: A health insurance company took custody of medical records pertaining to approximately 5,000 to 8,000 patients while assisting a retiring physician to transition her patients to new providers, and while considering the possibility of purchasing some of the physician’s practice. The company's employees, with notice that the physician was not at home, left 71 cardboard boxes of these medical records unattended and accessible to unauthorized persons on the driveway of the physician’s home, within 20 feet of the public road and a short distance away from a heavily trafficked public shopping venue. Was HIPAA violated or not, and if so, who violated it?
HIPAA was not violated; no one was at fault.
HIPAA was violated, but no one was particularly at fault.
HIPAA was violated; the retiring physician was at fault.
HIPAA was violated; the health insurance company was at fault.
