Data & Privacy Acts
Enacted in 1996 to enhance healthcare efficiency, protect patient privacy, and ensure the security of health information
What is HIPAA?
Nurses must obtain ____________ for proper data collection and use
What is consent?
_______ healthcare relies heavily on nursing informatics, which integrates technology to improve patient care and expedite nursing procedures.
What is modern?
Protecting patient information requires the implementation of secure data handling practices using...
What is encrypted communications/channels?
What is authentication methods?
Enacted in 2009 as part of the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act. It’s main goals were to promote adoption of electronic health records (EHRs) and strengthen privacy/security protections for health information.
What is Health Information Technology for Economic and Clinical Health (HITECH) Act?
Nurses must _______ for patient' rights in data sharing
What is advocate?
One of the most common system that healthcare professionals use that can be breached
What is electronic health record (EHRs)?
Nurses must build this this from patients to improve care results
What is trust?
Gives the right for clients to access their records, make amendments to ensure accuracy, and right to protection from unwarranted invasions of privacy
What is Privacy Act of 1974?
Nurses and healthcare professionals must be vigilant in ensuring that patient data is accessed and shared only by _______________.
What is authorized individuals?
____________ has improved with the development of health IT systems, facilitates doctors, clinicians, pharmacists, and other pertinent stakeholders' capacity to access, share, and assess patient records appropriately and as needed between systems.
What is Interoperability?
Healthcare organizations must implement robust _____________ measures.
What is cybersecurity?
Health informatics professionals are guided by federal, state and local regulations, as well as a code of ethics published by the
What is the American Health Information Management Association (AHIMA)?
The security and moral handling of patient information can be greatly improved in healthcare settings by fostering an environment of _____________
What is accountability?
HITECH Act also introduced the ______________ that offered incentive payments to providers who demonstrated meaningful use of certified EHR technology.
What is Meaningful Use Program?
The use of informatics requires effective ________ among healthcare professionals.
What is collaboration?
Notifications of breaches should be reported to the Department of Health and Human Services within 60 days
What is HIPAA?
Healthcare professionals are accountable for two things:
What is "safeguarding patient information and making sure that nursing informatics technology complies with moral standards"
To ensure nurses are trained about the most recent legal guidelines, moral principles, and the applications of informatics
What is continue education?
Select all that apply. Choose the best practices to uphold patient privacy.
A. Leave a message on the answering machine
B. Not sharing passwords with a co-worker
C. Only disclose information to authorized users
D. Carry the patient's information home, as a nurse
E. Log off before walking away
B, C & E