Patient Privacy & Compliance
This federal law protects patients’ health information and governs when and how it can be disclosed.
👉 What is HIPAA?
This principle allows disclosure of only the least amount of PHI necessary to fulfill a request.
👉 What is the Minimum Necessary standard?
This EDCO product is primarily used for front‑end document ingestion and soft indexing.
👉 What is Solarity?
Choosing the correct patient record is critical to safe patient care, therefore best practice is to use at a minimum this number of patient identifiers to ensure a 1:1 match.
👉 What are three patient identifiers?
Professionals in our department are considered experts in this area of healthcare.
👉 What is health information?
Epic records every time a patient’s record is accessed, including the user, date, time, and activity—part of this essential oversight process.
👉 What is audit logging (or audit trails)?
Patients may authorize someone else to receive their medical records by completing this document.
👉 What is an authorization for release of information?
This Hyland platform serves as an enterprise document management and workflow system integrated with Epic.
👉 What is OnBase?
The Master Patient Index is commonly referred to by this abbreviation.
👉 What is MPI?
This organization sets standards, provides education, and offers credentials for HIM professionals.
👉 What is AHIMA?
This Epic feature requires users to attest to a valid reason before accessing especially sensitive or confidential patient records.
👉 What is Break the Glass?
Requests for records used for continuity of care most often support communication between these parties.
👉 Who are healthcare providers?
This Epic solution allows scanning or uploading documents directly into the EHR.
👉 What is Epic Media Manager?
Fixing duplicate or incorrectly linked patient records involves this complex HIM process.
👉 What are merges (or unmerges)?
Correctly managing documents helps prevent delays in patient care and this process.
👉 What is reimbursement (or billing)?
This type of patient information includes names, MRNs, dates of birth, and medical details.
👉 What is Protected Health Information (PHI)?
This process tracks when patient information has been disclosed for certain types of requests.
👉 What is an Accounting of Disclosures?
Reducing misfiled records and improving turnaround times are key goals of this HIM activity.
👉 What is indexing?
Patients have the right to request corrections to their health record through this formal process.
👉 What are patient amendments?
RHIA and RHIT credentials require completion of this type of academic program.
👉 What is a CAHIIM‑accredited program (or HIM degree program)?
Accessing a patient’s chart without a job‑related reason—even out of curiosity—is considered this type of violation.
👉 What is inappropriate access, unauthorized access, or breach?
Disclosing records to attorneys or courts typically requires this legal document.
👉 What is a subpoena (or court order)?
Point of care scanning and centralized real-time indexing ensure scanned records are available in Epic timely, but still require this HIM oversight responsibility to ensure everything was scanned.
👉 What is validation?
This HIM responsibility helps correct errors originating from external systems such as Care Everywhere or applications feeding information into Epic.
👉 What are interface corrections (or reconciliation)?
HIM professionals operate 24/7 because health records support this continuous function of the organization.
👉 What is patient care?