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HIPAA Acronyms
100
This Premier team member makes sure your PC has up-to-date anti-virus software.
Who is Patrick Hatchwell?
100
This is where we dispose of paper PHI.
What is the shredding bin/shredder?
100
At least 8 characters, consisting of upper and lower case letters, numbers and symbols is an example of ....
What is a $tr0ngPa$$w0Rd?
100
HIPAA requires physical, administrative and technical safeguards to protect PHI. This Premier team member is responsible for these safeguards: access badges, alarm system, shredding bins.
Who is John Lumley? (he also gives lunches, umbrellas, parking spots... thanks, John!)
100
PHI
What is Protected Health Information?
200
Report all Data Breaches to this person. This person is our HIPAA Security Officer.
Who is Dennis Poore?
200
For these 3 purposes, we can disclose member PHI without getting their authorization.
What are Treatment, Payment and Operations?
200
We change this every 90 days.
What is our Pa$$w0rd?
200
Using this device to track their mileage, 36 Premier team members logged a combined total of 2309 miles in June.
What is a FitBit?
200
ePHI
What is electronic Protected Health Information (PHI that is stored or transmitted electronically)?
300
HIPAA applies to Covered Entities (CE's): health plans, healthcare clearinghouses and health care providers who transmit patient information electronically. Premier is not a CE. Premier contracts with CEs. Premier is one of these.
Who is a "Business Associate"?
300
When a member calls, we ask for these pieces of PHI to "verify HIPAA"?
What are the member name/ID/DOB/address?
300
We press these keys to lock our computer screens.
What are Microsoft Key + L (LOCK) or CTRL + ALT+ DELETE, and ENTER
300
In December 2014, Premier received Utilization Management and Credentialing certification from this prestigious accreditation organization.
What is NCQA?
300
CE's
What are Covered Entities?
400
This is Premier's HIPAA Privacy Officer. This person checks your garbage after hours to make sure there's no PHI in your garbage bin!
Who is Terry Wong?
400
"This email transmission is intended only for the addressee name above. It contains information that is legally privileged, confidential or otherwise protected from use or disclosure. If you are not the intended recipient, you are strictly prohibited from reviewing, disclosing, copying, using or disseminating any of this information or taking any action in reliance on or regarding this information. If you have received this email in error, please notify me immediately by telephone (561.455.9002). Thank you."
What is the Confidentiality Statement/Privacy Notice or Disclaimer? (This appears at the bottom of all our outgoing emails).
400
While you were hospitalized earlier this year, a hospital employee took cell phone pictures of your medical records and sold your information (name, DOB, address, SSN) to someone who a tax return in your name and got your refund.
What is identity theft? (This happened at a large South Florida hospital this year; since then the hospital has restricted use of cell phones at work).
400
This new software system houses provider and credentialing data and has an online provider search function. It also keeps an audit trail that shows who made changes to the data and when.
What is Vistar?
400
TPO
What are Treatment, Payment and Operations? (we do not need member's authorization to disclose PHI for these purposes)
500
Over 75% of our claims are received electronically, via Emdeon. Emdeon is one of these.
What is a clearinghouse (Covered Entity)?
500
This HIPAA rule requires that we access, use or disclose only the amount of information needed to get the job done.
What is the Minimum Necessary Rule?
500
If we email a file w. PHI to someone outside the company, we do this to the file.
What is encrypt/password-protect?
500
These 3 P's are on our walls and our website home page. This is our "triple bottom line".
What are People, Planet, Profit?
500
BAA
What is a Business Associate Agreement?