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HIPAA

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1. Medical records used for health care research

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2. 5P's of ethical power
Encryption
purpose - pride - patience - persistence - perspective
A written set of questions requiring written answers from a plaintiff or defendant under oath
Invasion of Privacy Publishing

3. Protecting healthcare coverage for employees who change jobs - allowing them to continue existing plans with a new employer.
Individually Identifiable Health Information
false charges and malicious oral statements about someone
Ethical
Portability

4. Protected Health Information (PHI)
treatment - payment - & healthcare operations
Any information that would identify a patient (name - add - tele - DOB - SSN - email - med. rec. number - etc)
Minimum necessary
judge made law from decisions of a court - interpretation of constitution and statuatory law - often known as precedents

5. Privacy Officer
Notice of Privacy Practices
Permission
Insurance portability - administrative simplification - privacy and security
Every office should have one! - responsible for making surethat thise office is HIPAA compliant - privacy officer should be.. an effective communicator with ability to answer questions about sespected HIPPA violations and complaints

6. Coded information that can't be read until is decoded.
state laws setting time limit for bringing a lawsuit
Regulations
Standard
Encryption

7. What information do patients NOT have access to?
Psychotherapy notes - information for legal proceedings - information exempted from disclosure under CLIA
Minimum necessary
Covered entities
purpose - pride - patience - persistence - perspective

8. What are the 3 purposes of HIPAA?
Type of consent in which a patient who is unable to give consent is given treatment under the legal assumption that he or she would want treatment.
Examples of PHI
Insurance portability - administrative simplification - privacy and security
false and malicious writing about another

9. Title I of HIPAA
What types of disclosures do not require patient permission?
need to know
Patient rights under HIPAA
addresses portability of insurance coverage when employees change or lose their jobs

10. interrogatory
A written set of questions requiring written answers from a plaintiff or defendant under oath
in order to maintain patient confidentiality - fax machines must be kept in areas not accessible to patients.
U.S. goverment
only those who meed to know should have access to patient information

11. Subpoenas
Psychotherapy notes - information for legal proceedings - information exempted from disclosure under CLIA
Type of consent in which a patient who is unable to give consent is given treatment under the legal assumption that he or she would want treatment.
A court order requiring someone to appear in court on a certain date time and reason. A medical record could be subpoenaed.
safeguards health & wealthfare of Medicare/Medicaid beneficiaries & protect program integrity

12. NPP
failure to act with the standard of care that a reasonable person would exercise under the same circumstances
concerned with mostly with h/c providers. It addresses fraud and abuse - administrative simplification and medical liability
Notice of Privacy Practices
Patient

13. Freedom from unauthorized intrusion
need to know
Ethical
concerned with mostly with h/c providers. It addresses fraud and abuse - administrative simplification and medical liability
Privacy

14. Disabilities act

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15. Slander
Verification
Patient rights under HIPAA
Electronic Protected Health Information
false charges and malicious oral statements about someone

16. Clearinghouse
Code sets
a service company that recieves electronic or paper claims from the provider - checks and prepares them for processing - and transmits them in HIPAA-complaint format to the correct carriers
testimony under oath
Medical data from which individual identifiers have been removed; also known as a redacted or blinded record.

17. HI
Type of consent in which a patient who is unable to give consent is given treatment under the legal assumption that he or she would want treatment.
safeguards health & wealthfare of Medicare/Medicaid beneficiaries & protect program integrity
parent of a minor - legal guardian - Agent (patient selected on behalf in h/c power of attorney)
Health Information

18. Ethics
a minor - rather than the parent - must sign the release of patient information
A court order requiring someone to appear in court on a certain date time and reason. A medical record could be subpoenaed.
the philosophical study of moral values and rules - conducts
Psychotherapy notes - information for legal proceedings - information exempted from disclosure under CLIA

19. Document that includes the standards
Electronic transmission
Rule
Electronic data interchange
Tort

20. Fax machines
Privacy
Covered entities
state laws setting time limit for bringing a lawsuit
should only be used when no other - more secure mode of transmission is available

21. PII
parent of a minor - legal guardian - Agent (patient selected on behalf in h/c power of attorney)
Electronic data interchange
Designated record set
Patient Identifiable Information

22. Federal law protects patient records dealing with...
Invasion of Privacy Publishing
a service company that recieves electronic or paper claims from the provider - checks and prepares them for processing - and transmits them in HIPAA-complaint format to the correct carriers
improper performance of an otherwise lawful act. civil
substance abuse treatment

23. Patient records are _____________ so not all staff will have access.
Medical data from which individual identifiers have been removed; also known as a redacted or blinded record.
need to know
Standard
Designated record set

24. Titile II of HIPAA
concerned with mostly with h/c providers. It addresses fraud and abuse - administrative simplification and medical liability
Medical data from which individual identifiers have been removed; also known as a redacted or blinded record.
Minimum necessary
should never be released w/o a patient's signed consent or court order

25. 4d's of negligence
Encryption
Privacy
State preemption
Duty; duty of care - Derelict; breach of the duty of care - Direct cause; legally recognizable injury occurs as a result of breach of care - Damage; wrongful activity must have been the cause

26. All persons who will have access are required to...
law that permits a person w/ a legal age and sound mind to give their body to donation
only those who meed to know should have access to patient information
have a unique password and it should be changed frequently
individuals such as cleaning staff and consultants who work in the office. These individuals do not need access to patient info but may come in contact while completing their duties

27. See & Copy their health records - update health records - obtain a list of the institution's disclosures - other than for payment & healthcare operations - request a restriction on a certain uses or disclosures - choose how to receive their health in
false and malicious writing about another
Medical data from which individual identifiers have been removed; also known as a redacted or blinded record.
Patient rights under HIPAA
Portability

28. Hardware or software designed to prevent unauthorized access to electronic information.
it must have an accompanying disclaimer stating the fax information cannot be shared with any other party w/o patient's written consent
Firewalls
Transaction
Standard

29. General exceptions for releasing patient information
although medical records are confidential - there are times when they can be released w/o a patient consent.
parent of a minor - legal guardian - Agent (patient selected on behalf in h/c power of attorney)
it must have an accompanying disclaimer stating the fax information cannot be shared with any other party w/o patient's written consent
Prohibits discrimination preventing indiviualds with physical or mental disabilities or chronic illness - from accessing public services & accomodations. Employers requires 'reasonable accommodation' be provided so they can perform duties.

30. Doctor release of patient
patient discharges doctor with letter - doctor formally withdraws from patient with a certified letter or patient no longer needs treatment
should never be released w/o a patient's signed consent or court order
Patient Identifiable Information
concerned with mostly with h/c providers. It addresses fraud and abuse - administrative simplification and medical liability

31. Bioethics
Standard
treatment - payment - & healthcare operations
generally only patient can auth release of own medical record - there are a few exceptions
also called biomedical ethics - the moral dilemmas and issues of advanced medicine and medical research

32. De-Identified Information
Treatment - payment and health care operations (TPO)
improper performance of an otherwise lawful act. civil
Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act of 1996 (passed by congress because of portability problems - also to protect PHI)
Medical data from which individual identifiers have been removed; also known as a redacted or blinded record.

33. Uniform anotomical gift act
Firewalls
law that permits a person w/ a legal age and sound mind to give their body to donation
a contract that comes about from the actions of the parties rather than words
a service company that recieves electronic or paper claims from the provider - checks and prepares them for processing - and transmits them in HIPAA-complaint format to the correct carriers

34. Libel
Any information that would identify a patient (name - add - tele - DOB - SSN - email - med. rec. number - etc)
also called biomedical ethics - the moral dilemmas and issues of advanced medicine and medical research
false and malicious writing about another
may be disclosed to public health agencies - patient identifiers are removed so it's covered by HIPAA

35. Implied contract
Prohibits discrimination preventing indiviualds with physical or mental disabilities or chronic illness - from accessing public services & accomodations. Employers requires 'reasonable accommodation' be provided so they can perform duties.
a contract that comes about from the actions of the parties rather than words
Psychotherapy notes - information for legal proceedings - information exempted from disclosure under CLIA
in order to maintain patient confidentiality - fax machines must be kept in areas not accessible to patients.

36. HIPAA compliance mandates that computer systems must be...
h/c workers --qualified people of organizations(perf. data processinf or transcript) -certain gov. auth. (pub health activities) -appropriate auth(protect vic. of abuse) -law enforcement officials or judicial orders
Duty; duty of care - Derelict; breach of the duty of care - Direct cause; legally recognizable injury occurs as a result of breach of care - Damage; wrongful activity must have been the cause
Patient Identifiable Information
located in a secured and private space

37. Negligence
Individually Identifiable Health Information
Treatment - payment and health care operations (TPO)
Portability
failure to act with the standard of care that a reasonable person would exercise under the same circumstances

38. If a states privacy laws are stricter than HIPAA privacy standards - the state laws take precedence.
Electronic data interchange
State preemption
De-Identified Information
parent of a minor - legal guardian - Agent (patient selected on behalf in h/c power of attorney)

39. The ability to control access and protect information from accidental or intentional disclosure to unauthorized persons and from altercation - destruction - or loss
Prohibits discrimination preventing indiviualds with physical or mental disabilities or chronic illness - from accessing public services & accomodations. Employers requires 'reasonable accommodation' be provided so they can perform duties.
security rule
must be reported to authorities by law
Insurance portability - administrative simplification - privacy and security

40. Sending information over electronic networks.
malpractice
Limited data set
Electronic transmission
should never be released w/o a patient's signed consent or court order

41. Gunshot wound - child abuse - infectious diseases - required by law - law enforcement purposes.
located in a secured and private space
What types of disclosures do not require patient permission?
Covered transactions
Every office should have one! - responsible for making surethat thise office is HIPAA compliant - privacy officer should be.. an effective communicator with ability to answer questions about sespected HIPPA violations and complaints

42. Common law
Firewalls
Patient
judge made law from decisions of a court - interpretation of constitution and statuatory law - often known as precedents
Ethical

43. DII
improper performance of an otherwise lawful act. civil
De-Identified Information
Ethical
Standard

44. Transmission of information between two parties fro financial or administrative activities.
treatment - payment - & healthcare operations
Transaction
State preemption
Standard

45. The limited amount of patient information to be disclosed - depending on circumstances.
Minimum necessary
Portability
law concerned with public wrongs against society
judge made law from decisions of a court - interpretation of constitution and statuatory law - often known as precedents

46. HIPAA
comes on after a few idle seconds and the use of a privacy screen should be mandatory
Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act of 1996 (passed by congress because of portability problems - also to protect PHI)
testimony under oath
Insurance portability - administrative simplification - privacy and security

47. Battery
Electronic transmission
individuals such as cleaning staff and consultants who work in the office. These individuals do not need access to patient info but may come in contact while completing their duties
treatment - payment - & healthcare operations
illegal touching of another person

48. Any set of codes use to encode health care data elements.
Code sets
Psychotherapy notes - information for legal proceedings - information exempted from disclosure under CLIA
Covered transactions
a service company that recieves electronic or paper claims from the provider - checks and prepares them for processing - and transmits them in HIPAA-complaint format to the correct carriers

49. Unlawful act done without permission.
Malfeasance
Electronic Protected Health Information
Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act of 1996 (passed by congress because of portability problems - also to protect PHI)
parent of a minor - legal guardian - Agent (patient selected on behalf in h/c power of attorney)

50. Deposition
testimony under oath
a contract that comes about from the actions of the parties rather than words
Regulations
Type of consent in which a patient who is unable to give consent is given treatment under the legal assumption that he or she would want treatment.