HIPAA Background
What does "HIPAA" stand for?
Health Insurance Portability & Accountability Act of 1996
_________________is a healthcare provider that electronically transmits health information in electronic form like doctors ,clinics, psychologist ,dentist,nursing homes ,pharmacies
What are Covered entities
What does CDC stand for?
Centers for Disease Control
This is a public health institute that focuses on infection prevention and response.
The Centers for Disease Control (CDC)
This is the breakdown of skin tissue due to the lack of oxygen supply. These happen when circulation is cut off by the body's weight pushing down on the blood vessels that serve a particular area of the body.
What are decubitus ulcers
pressure ulcers or bedsores
This is any data about a person's healthcare or payment for their healthcare services it also is information that could be used to identify any person that it relates to
PHI (protected health information)
This HIPAA rule gives patients specific rights regarding their health information also regulates who else can have access to this information
What is the privacy rule
What is the correct full name for OSHA?
Occupational Safety and Health Administration
This is the organization that handles government-funded insurance for people over 65 years old and to financially disadvantaged Americans.
The Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS),
What could happen in the joints due to a loss of muscle elasticity?
What are contractures?
What does PHI stand for?
Protected Health Information
This is a federally funded health insurance program for people 65 years of age or older. While commonly associated with the elderly,
What is Medicare?
Medicare does provide health benefits for people of any age that have certain disabilities or if someone has end-stage kidney failure.
What is the role of the CDC in Standard Precautions?
Educate healthcare workers to know how to stop the spread of infections
This is the name of the Federal Administration that regulates food and drugs for safety.
The Food and Drug Administration (FDA),
What are circular, wave-like muscle contractions that move our food through the digestive system
What is peristalsis?
The HIPAA __________ Rule protects a subset of information covered by the Privacy Rule. This subset is all individually identifiable health information a covered entity creates, receives, maintains, or transmits in electronic form. This information is called “electronic protected health information” (e-PHI). ?
HIPAA Security Rule
______________is a federally and state-funded program, administered by each individual state, which provides government insurance for people of any age whose incomes are insufficient to pay for healthcare.
What is Medicaid
Whose safety is OSHA most focused in regards to Standard Precautions?
Healthcare workers
This Federal Agency focuses on protecting the environment and keeping humans healthy.
U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA)
This is the movement of bones and skeletal muscles to change position and posture. This involves moving, positioning, and ambulation of patients.
what is body mechanics
Who needs to comply with HIPAA?
Healthcare entities, healthcare professionals, healthcare clearinghouse
This Federal Act allows eligible employees to take unpaid job-protected leave for specific reasons, such as the birth of a child or to care for a spouse or sick child who has a serious health condition.
What is Family Medical Leave Act:
The set of regulations to prevent the spread of bloodborne and infectious diseases is known as _____.
Standard precautions
otherwise known as the NLRB, is a federal agency that has the power to protect employees' rights to organize and to form unions, should the employees wish to do so
The National Labor Relations Board,
What is the technical term for walking?
What is ambulation