Safeguard/Confidentiality
What does Confidentiality mean?
Keeping all privileged information private
Health professionals that respect confidentiality when treating competent minors allow those to ________________.
Verbally consent to medical care
HIPAA applies directly to 3 groups referred to as ___________.
Covered Entities
Transactions involve the transfer of ______________.
Healthcare information
HIPAA is broken up into how many parts of administration?
4
What information pertaining to a patient is included in Confidentiality?
Diagnosis, Medical history, & Lifestyle
Confidentiality of minors may be ethically broken when ___________________________________.
Parents need to be informed of treatment or serious illness
What is a Healthcare Clearinghouses?
A public or private entity that transforms healthcare transactions from one format to another
The privacy requirements govern the ____________________.
Disclosure of patient protected health information (PHI)
Confidentiality as related to health care dates back to the ___________.
Hippocratic Oath
Never disclose information to a third party without _________ (includes insurance companies, attorneys, employers, curious neighbors)
Signed consent
If you make a mistake in a patient's written record, how many lines are needed before correction and why?
Errors should be crossed out with single line so that mistake is still readable.
What are the 3 groups referred to as "covered entities"?
Healthcare Providers, Health Plans, & Healthcare Clearinghouses
EIN & IRS stand for?
Employer Identification Number (EIN) & Internal Revenue Service (IRS)
All information concerning patients is referred to as ______________.
Privileged information
When on the phone with a patient, what should you not use when surrounded by others in a room?
The patient's name
What sports am I coaching this year at the Junior High?
Football... Basketball... Track
*DOUBLE JEOPARDY
Certain patient information is exempt by law and reports to proper authorities are required without patient consent.. Give me as many options as possible (worth 100 points each)
Threats of serious bodily harm to another that may reasonably be believed
Child abuse (physical/sexual)
Vehicular accidents involving drug/alcohol
A reportable communicable or sexually transmitted disease
Births and deaths
emergencies
injuries caused by violence
The security regulation adopts _________, ________ and ________ safeguards required to prevent unauthorized access to protected health care information.
Administrative, technical and physical safeguards
DOUBLE JEOPARDY
HIPAA was passed to provide consumers with greater access to _________, __________________, and _______________ and ________________.
Healthcare insurance, to protect the privacy of healthcare data, and to promote more standardization and efficiency in the healthcare industry
When leaving a message on a home answering machine or at a patient’s place of employment, you should ______________.
simply ask the patient to return a call.
What college/university did I attend?
James Madison University
What were the two laws initially discussed earlier with HIPAA?
1. Gives patients the right to see or get a copy of their health records
2. Sets rules about who can look at and receive patient health information
_______________ = HIPAA will require that health care providers, health plans, and employers have standard national numbers that identify them on standard transactions
National Identifier Requirements
Confidentiality is a precept of the _______ and the ______________________.
The Hippocratic Oath & The American Medical Association's Code of Ethics.