Knowledge Activity: Introduction to Privacy
and Security
Student instructions
Qushae McNeill
1. If you have questions about this activity, please contact your instructor for assistance.
2. You will review the chart of Daisha Estrada to complete this activity. Your instructor has
provided you with a link to the Introduction to Privacy and Security activity. Click on 2:
Launch EHR to review the patient chart and begin this activity.
3. Refer to the patient chart and any suggested resources to complete this activity.
4. Document your answers directly on this activity document as you complete the activity.
When you are finished, you will save this activity document to your device and upload
this activity document with your answers to your Learning Management System (LMS).
The activity
What is HIPAA?
HIPAA is an acronym that stands for the Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act.
It’s a US law designed to provide privacy standards to protect patients' medical records and
other health information provided to health plans, doctors, hospitals and other health care
providers. Developed by the Department of Health and Human Services, these standards
provide patients with access to their medical records and more control over how their personal
health information is used and disclosed. They represent a uniform, federal floor of privacy
protections for consumers across the country.
A Covered Entity is one of the following:
A Health Care A Health Plan A Health Care Clearinghouse
Provider
This includes This includes: This includes entities that
providers such as: Health insurance process nonstandard health
1. Doctors companies information they receive
2. Clinics HMOs from another entity into a
3. Psychologists Company health plans standard (i.e., standard
4. Dentists Government programs electronic format or data
5. Chiropractors that pay for health care, content), or vice versa.
6. Nursing Homes such as Medicare,
Medicaid, and the military
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, 7. Pharmacies and veterans’ health care
programs
(US Department of Health and Human Services, 2015)
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and Security
Student instructions
Qushae McNeill
1. If you have questions about this activity, please contact your instructor for assistance.
2. You will review the chart of Daisha Estrada to complete this activity. Your instructor has
provided you with a link to the Introduction to Privacy and Security activity. Click on 2:
Launch EHR to review the patient chart and begin this activity.
3. Refer to the patient chart and any suggested resources to complete this activity.
4. Document your answers directly on this activity document as you complete the activity.
When you are finished, you will save this activity document to your device and upload
this activity document with your answers to your Learning Management System (LMS).
The activity
What is HIPAA?
HIPAA is an acronym that stands for the Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act.
It’s a US law designed to provide privacy standards to protect patients' medical records and
other health information provided to health plans, doctors, hospitals and other health care
providers. Developed by the Department of Health and Human Services, these standards
provide patients with access to their medical records and more control over how their personal
health information is used and disclosed. They represent a uniform, federal floor of privacy
protections for consumers across the country.
A Covered Entity is one of the following:
A Health Care A Health Plan A Health Care Clearinghouse
Provider
This includes This includes: This includes entities that
providers such as: Health insurance process nonstandard health
1. Doctors companies information they receive
2. Clinics HMOs from another entity into a
3. Psychologists Company health plans standard (i.e., standard
4. Dentists Government programs electronic format or data
5. Chiropractors that pay for health care, content), or vice versa.
6. Nursing Homes such as Medicare,
Medicaid, and the military
EHR Go Knowledge Activity: Introduction to Privacy and Security AK1004.3
Archetype Innovations LLC ©2021 1
, 7. Pharmacies and veterans’ health care
programs
(US Department of Health and Human Services, 2015)
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Archetype Innovations LLC ©2021 2
