HIPAA Quiz – Healthcare Compliance – 2026 – Study and Practice Guide
HIPAA is a federal law enacted to protect the privacy of a patient's personal and health
information and provide for its physical and electronic security - correct answer ✔✔ THIS
STATEMENT IS TRUE
Because I have access to confidential patient information as part of my job, I can look up
anybody's record, even if they are not my patient, as long as I keep the information to myself -
correct answer ✔✔ THIS STATEMENT IS FALSE
You can protect patient information by: - correct answer ✔✔ -protecting verbal or written info
- utilizing safe computing skills
-reporting suspected security incidents
A 19 year old UCLA student is admitted through the ER for injuries sustained in a motor vehicle
accident. She is in stable condition, but awake and alert. Her father calls from minnesota asking
for information on her condition. You can: - correct answer ✔✔ Provide no information at all to
her father
A news reporter comes into the ER and tells the attending physician that there is suspicion that
the accident in which the 19-year-old female was injured was caused by a sniper shooting on
the freeway and he is doing a story for the nightly news. He wants the patient's name and
condition for his report. You can provide him with this information. - correct answer ✔✔ This
statement is FALSE
Your supervisor (a physician) is very busy and asks you to log into the clinical information system
using her user-ID and password to retrieve some patient reports. What should you do? - correct
answer ✔✔ Decline the request and refer to the UC Information Security Policies
HIPAA is a federal law enacted to protect the privacy of a patient's personal and health
information and provide for its physical and electronic security - correct answer ✔✔ THIS
STATEMENT IS TRUE
Because I have access to confidential patient information as part of my job, I can look up
anybody's record, even if they are not my patient, as long as I keep the information to myself -
correct answer ✔✔ THIS STATEMENT IS FALSE
You can protect patient information by: - correct answer ✔✔ -protecting verbal or written info
- utilizing safe computing skills
-reporting suspected security incidents
A 19 year old UCLA student is admitted through the ER for injuries sustained in a motor vehicle
accident. She is in stable condition, but awake and alert. Her father calls from minnesota asking
for information on her condition. You can: - correct answer ✔✔ Provide no information at all to
her father
A news reporter comes into the ER and tells the attending physician that there is suspicion that
the accident in which the 19-year-old female was injured was caused by a sniper shooting on
the freeway and he is doing a story for the nightly news. He wants the patient's name and
condition for his report. You can provide him with this information. - correct answer ✔✔ This
statement is FALSE
Your supervisor (a physician) is very busy and asks you to log into the clinical information system
using her user-ID and password to retrieve some patient reports. What should you do? - correct
answer ✔✔ Decline the request and refer to the UC Information Security Policies
