Studied by 169 peopleWhat does HIPAA stand for?
Health Insurance Portability and Accountability act
HIPAA was created to bring a balance between:
improving flow of information
protecting the privacy of patients
When was HIPAA signed into law?
August 21 1996
Which President and congress signed HIPAA into law?
Bill Clinton, 104th congress
What was the original intention of HIPAA?
helping more Americans gain health insurance coverage and ensuring that employees would not lose their health insurance if they changed jobs.
What did HIPAA allow the Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) to set standards for?
the safeguarding of identifiable health information
increase the efficiency and effectiveness of the healthcare industry as a whole.
How long ago does health care confidentiality date back?
Dates back to the Hippocratic Oath
For how long is your protected health information (PHI) protected for, after you die?
50 years
The Privacy Rule
protects the Personal Health Information (PHI) and medical records of individuals.
The security Rule
defines and regulates the standards, methods, and procedures related to the protection of electronic PHI on storage, accessibility, and transmission.
The transaction rule
regulates data transmission specifications that govern how data is electronically transferred from one computer to another. The rule defines the types of electronic transactions subject to HIPAA, and specifies the exact format for each transaction record.
The identifiers rule
requires all healthcare entities, including individuals, employers, health plans and healthcare providers, to have a unique 10-digit National Provider Identifier number.
The enforcement rule
establishes guidelines for investigations into HIPAA compliance violations.
PHI
identifiable information that appears in medical records as well as conversations between healthcare staff
Regards patient information
includes billing info and any info that could be used to identify an individual in a health insurance company's records
Where can you find PHI?
medical documents and forms
records of communication
doctor/clinic appointments
prescriptions
blood tests
MRI/X-ray results
Billing info
How many HIPAA complaints has there been since the compliance rule of April 2003?
270,242
What percent of HIPAA complaints have ended in a financial settlement ?
0.04%
What are the 7 patient rights?
Receive a copy of an agency’s privacy practices.
Know that an agency will use its PHI ONLY for treatment, payment, operations, and certain other permitted uses as required by law
Control the use and disclosure of their PHI.
Have access to a copy of their PHI
Request amendment or addendum to their PHI
Receive records of disclosures (times when PHI was given out)
File a privacy complaints to an agency officer
In 2020 what state had the highest number of HIPAA complaints?
California
What is the Need to Know principle?
protected health information should not be used or disclosed when it is not necessary to satisfy a particular need or carry out a function.
Sending documents through email has to be encrypted and only if really necessary
Reportable Patient Information
Births Deaths Adverse Reactions to Meds or Vaccines Child Abuse Elder Abuse Crimes/Violence Communicable Diseases Error by other physicians
The code advises that when, by law, patient confidentiality must be breached, the physician should notify the patient and disclose to law-enforcement authorities the minimal amount of information required
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