Health Regulation: HIPAA, HITECH, and ACA
It stands for Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services.
What does CMS stands for?
Legal documents that belong to the provider who created them. They are actual progress notes, reports, and other clinical materials.
What is patient's medical records?
What is HIPAA Privacy Rule?
-Regulating all laboratory testing other than research performed on humans
-Preventing discrimination based on health status for people buying health insurance
-Researching the effectiveness of various methods of healthcare management, treatment, and financing
-Evaluating the quality of healthcare facilities and services
What activities does CMS perform to ensure the quality of healthcare?
Patients and their legally appointed representatives
Who have the authority to authorize release of information?
It stands for protected health information.
It stands for Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act of 1996
What does HIPAA stands for?
It's the computer-to-computer exchange of routine business information using publicly available standards.
What is Electronic Data Interchange (EDI)?
It defined as individually identifiable health information that is transmitted or maintained by electronic media.
What is PHI?
To protect people's private health information, ensure health insurance coverage for workers and their families when they change or lose their jobs, uncover fraud and abuse, and create standards for electronic transmissions of healthcare transactions.
What is HIPAA law for?
It's an organization that electronically transmits any information that is protected under HIPAA.
What are covered entities (CEs)?
It includes name, address, names of relatives and employees, birth date, telephone numbers, fax number, e-mail address, social security number, medical record number, health plan beneficiary number, account number, certificate or license number, serial number of any vehicle, website address, fingerprints or voiceprints, photographic images, and genetic information.
What information does PHI contain?
It stands for Health Information Technology for Economic and Clinical Health Act.
What does HITECH stands for?
Health plans, Healthcare clearinghouse, and Healthcare Providers
Who are the covered entities?
They must have a set of privacy practices that are appropriate for its healthcare services, notify patients about their privacy rights and how their information can be used or disclosed, train employees so that they understand the privacy practices, appoint a privacy official responsible for seeing that the privacy practices are adopted and followed, and safeguard patients' records.
What does covered entities must do?