Laws that protect patient privacy
Title component of HIPPA that is the most relevant to the management of health information
What is Title II: Administrative Simplification?
Information that identifies a person or makes it possible for the person to be indentified, this is one of three requirements for the information to be considered as
What is protected health information?
This term indicates the releasing or disseminating of information about an identifiable person to an outside entity or person
What is disclosure?
Law that was signed in 2009 that included significant funding for health information technology
What is the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act (ARRA)?
Information from which personal characteristics about the individual have been removed in order for it to be unable to identify the person
What is deidentified information?
The sharing, application, and utilization of identifiable information within an entity that maintains such information
What is use?
Statute within the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act that contains significant changes to the HIPPA Privacy Rule
What is the Health Information Technology for Economic and Clinical Health Act (HITECH)?
These types of records are not subject to the HIPPA Privacy Rule
What are employment records?
Functions of a covered entity that are necessary for the successful administration of the business and where the HIPPA Privacy Rule is relaxed or removed
What is treatment, payment, and operations?
What are individual state laws?
A group of records kept and maintained by or for a covered entity, medical and billing records about individuals among others
What is a designated record set (DRS)?
This type of entity performs covered and noncovered functions under the Privacy Rule
What is a hybrid entity?
Federal statute that provides specific safeguards to protect patient and treatment information that relates to drug abuse or other substance abuse
What is the Drug Abuse Prevention, Treatment, and Rehabilitation Act of 1972?
This is the term used to indicate the person who is the subject of PHI
What is an individual?
Two or more covered entities who share protected health information to manage and benefit their common purpose
What is an organized healthcare arrangement?