HIPAA Basics
This is what HIPAA stands for.
What is the Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act?
This acronym refers to individually identifiable health information.
What is Protected Health Information (PHI)?
The tree types of safeguards under the Security Rule
What are administrative, physical, and technical safeguards?
The maximum annual penalty for civil penalties
What is $2 million?
Patients can request this if they find errors in their medical records.
What is the Right to Amendment?
The year HIPAA was signed into law.
What is 1996?
Patients can request these to see their own medical records.
What is Right to Access?
This safeguard includes staff training and risk assessments.
What are administrative safeguards?
Tier where fines are the lowest on civil penalties
These penalties apply to individuals who knowingly misuse PHI.
What are criminal penalties?
HIPAA's two main goals.
What are protecting patient privacy and ensuring data security?
The principle that limits PHI sharing to only what's necessary.
What is the Minimum Necessary Standard?
Encrypting data is an example of this type of safeguard.
What is a technical safeguard?
Criminal penalties for HIPAA violations can include this.
What is jail time?
The Minimum Necessary rule applies to these types of PHI disclosures.
What is treatment, payment, and operations?
This entity is responsible for enforcing HIPAA
What is the Office for Civil Rights (OCR)?
A type of form that is required before sharing PHI for non-treatment purposes?
Physical safeguards require these to protect facilities.
What are locked doors?
The agency that conducts HIPAA auidts
What is the Office for Civil Rights?
This 2009 law strengthened HIPAA's breach notification requirements.
What is the HITECH Act?
What are the Privacy and Security Rule?
The time frame providers have to respond to a patient's record request.
15-days
What is a risk assessment?
A hospital loses an unencrypted laptop with PHI. This is the penalty tier.
What is Tier 4?
What is Reproductive Health Information?