Privacy & Confidentiality
The right of individuals to keep their personal health information free from unauthorized intrusion.
What is privacy
This amendment protects citizens from unreasonable searches and seizures.
What is the 4th Amendment
This term refers to any identifiable patient information such as name, birth date, or SSN.
What is Protected Health Information (PHI)
The HITECH Act was part of this 2009 law
What is the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act (ARRA)
The duty of health care professionals to keep patient information secret unless authorized by the patient.
What is confidentiality
The Supreme Court case that first recognized a constitutional right to privacy.
What is Griswold v. Connecticut (1965)
The HIPAA rule that protects PHI in written, spoken, or electronic form.
What is the Privacy Rule
This Act strengthened HIPAA’s privacy and security protections
What is the HITECH Act
Saying a patient’s name in the waiting room is this type of disclosure, which is allowed under HIPAA
What is an incidental disclosure?
This case expanded the right to privacy to include reproductive rights.
What is Roe v. Wade
The HIPAA rule that safeguards electronic PHI through data protection measures.
What is the Security Rule
The HITECH Act extended liability to this group that performs services for covered entities.
What are business associates
Sharing information with staff not involved in a patient’s care is an example of this kind of violation.
What is a confidentiality violation
Which amendments imply the right to privacy even though it is not directly stated in the Constitution?
What are the 1st, 3rd, 4th, 5th, 9th, and 14th Amendments
Releasing information about child abuse is allowed under this HIPAA permission category
What is Public Interest and Benefit
This HITECH provision incentivized providers to adopt electronic medical records.
What is meaningful use
In health care, privacy is a ______, while confidentiality is a ______.
What is right and duty
When federal privacy laws override state laws, this legal principle applies.
What is preemption
If a data breach affects over 500 records, this organization must be notified.
What is the Office for Civil Rights (OCR)
The HITECH Act requires these two key actions after a data breach.
What are notification and documentation