Vocab
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What is Precedence?
Disclosing private facts without the consent of the individual.
What is Invasion of privacy?
Disclosure of protected health information, without a reason or permission, which compromises the security or privacy of the information.
What is Breach?
Healthcare providers, health insurance plans, and healthcare clearinghouses that transmit protected health information electronically.
What are Covered Entities?
Being free from unwanted intrusion
What is privacy?
Legally protected rights of patients.
What is confidentiality?
To remove all direct patient identifiers from the PHI information.
What is de-identify?
Individually identifiable health information stored or transmitted by covered entities or business associates.
What is protected health information?
A form that must be completed by the patient before the patient's records can be transferred.
What is Record Release Form?
Written principles that provide goals for the employees and the facility.
What are Policies?
An organization that accepts the claim data from the provider, reformats the data to meet the specifications outlined by the insurance plan, and submits the claim.
What is claims clearinghouse?
Safeguards that include facility, workstation, and device security.
What are Physical Safeguards?
Reasons that the health information can be released.
What is permission?
Safeguards that include a security officer who is responsible to create and carry out security policies and procedures.
What is Administrative Safeguards?
The electronic exchange of information between two agencies to accomplish financial or administrative healthcare activities.
What is Electronic Transaction?
A system designed to use characters to represent something like a medical procedure or disease.
What is Coding System?
A form that must be completed by the patient before the information can be shared with another person; also called an authorization to disclose form.
What is Disclosure Authorization?
A person or business that provides a service to a covered entity that involves access to PHI.
What is a Business Associate?
A provider can exercise professional judgement to determine if the records should be released to a patient who was treated for emotional or mental conditions.
What is Doctrine of Professional Discretion?
Step-by-step directions.
What are Procedures?
Exit route
What is Egress?
Written instructions about healthcare decisions in case a person is unable to make them.
What is Advance Directives?
Protected health information that has has all of the direct patient identifiers removed.
What is Limited Data Set?
Conforms to nationally recognized standards and contains health-related information about a specific patient; it can be created, managed, and consulted by authorized clinicians and staff from more than one healthcare organization.
What is the Electronic Health Record?