ACRONYMS
PHI
What is Protected Health Information?
This policy requires a work environment where individuals can report potential compliance and regulatory concerns without fear of negative consequences.
What is the Non-Retaliation Policy?
Applied to an email containing PHI being sent outside of the organization.
What is encryption?
This is what a concerned team member might do when their co-worker calls out sick.
What is inappropriate accessing of co-worker record/snooping?
This type of physical safeguard would protect the paper PHI stored in an office file cabinet.
What is locking the file cabinet?
HIPAA
What is Health Information Portability and Accountability Act?
Team members will complete at the time of hire or onboarding and annually thereafter while active with the organization.
What is the Annual Compliance and Ethics Training Policy?
A suspicious email sent to our organization, users or more to collect sensitive information.
What is phishing?
This is the recommended application for parents, guardians, or caregivers to access a patient’s medical record.
What is MyChart proxy access?
This is an example of a technical safeguard that should not be shared with your teammates.
What is a password?
OCR
What is the Office for Civil Rights?
Violations or suspected violations may be submitted on a confidential basis by the complainant and may be submitted anonymously.
What is the Reporting Compliance Violations Policy or Hotline Policy?
A set of guidelines that outlines ethical behavior for employees.
What is the Code of Conduct?
These are the 3 conditions when it is permissible to disclose PHI without a patient’s consent.
What is TPO (Treatment, Payment or Healthcare Operations)?
This is one type of safeguard that might be used to limit the view of PHI displayed on a computer monitor while in use.
What is a privacy screen?