HIPAA Exam
What is transforming information via an algorithm to make it unreadable to anyone who does not
possess the decryption information required to read it? - Answer-Encryption
What is a document that explains to patients how his or her PHI may be used and disclosed? - Answer-
Notice of Privacy Practices (NOPP)
What does HIPAA stand for? - Answer-Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act
What are the primary goals of HIPAA? - Answer-To improve the portability and continuity of healthcare
coverage
Under HIPAA what must health care providers ensure is always maintained? - Answer-Patient
Confidentiality
What is controlled by HIPAA for covered entities use and disclosure? - Answer-Protected Health
Information (PHI)
What is considered an unauthorized disclosure? - Answer-Invasion of Privacy
How many provisions of HIPAA are there? - Answer-2
What is Title I of HIPAA called? - Answer-Health Insurance Reform
What regulates many types of health insurance? - Answer-State Law
, Who regulates employer-offered health plans? - Answer-federal Employee Retirement Income and
Security Act of 1974 (ERISA)
What allows employees who are leaving a job to elect to continue their previous employer's health
coverage for a limited time? - Answer-Consolidated Omnibus Budget Reconciliation Act of 1985 (COBRA)
What is Title II of HIPAA called? - Answer-Administrative Simplification
What restricted electronic transfer of healthcare data, gave patients more rights regarding their own
personal health information, and put in place better security of this information? - Answer-Title II of
HIPAA
What was encouraged so routine business information exchange could be exchanged between
computers? - Answer-Electronic Data Interchange (EDI)
Who have increased controls over the way they manage and store patient information? - Answer-
Pharmacies
What must be protected by healthcare personnel, including pharmacy technicians, who must know
which types of information they can release? - Answer-Access to Medical Records
What must be handled with great care? - Answer-Discarded Patient Information (DPI)
When patient records are to be discarded, they should be destroyed by whom? - Answer-A licensed,
bonded company
How must computer storage media be discarded? - Answer-Completely Wiped
What is transforming information via an algorithm to make it unreadable to anyone who does not
possess the decryption information required to read it? - Answer-Encryption
What is a document that explains to patients how his or her PHI may be used and disclosed? - Answer-
Notice of Privacy Practices (NOPP)
What does HIPAA stand for? - Answer-Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act
What are the primary goals of HIPAA? - Answer-To improve the portability and continuity of healthcare
coverage
Under HIPAA what must health care providers ensure is always maintained? - Answer-Patient
Confidentiality
What is controlled by HIPAA for covered entities use and disclosure? - Answer-Protected Health
Information (PHI)
What is considered an unauthorized disclosure? - Answer-Invasion of Privacy
How many provisions of HIPAA are there? - Answer-2
What is Title I of HIPAA called? - Answer-Health Insurance Reform
What regulates many types of health insurance? - Answer-State Law
, Who regulates employer-offered health plans? - Answer-federal Employee Retirement Income and
Security Act of 1974 (ERISA)
What allows employees who are leaving a job to elect to continue their previous employer's health
coverage for a limited time? - Answer-Consolidated Omnibus Budget Reconciliation Act of 1985 (COBRA)
What is Title II of HIPAA called? - Answer-Administrative Simplification
What restricted electronic transfer of healthcare data, gave patients more rights regarding their own
personal health information, and put in place better security of this information? - Answer-Title II of
HIPAA
What was encouraged so routine business information exchange could be exchanged between
computers? - Answer-Electronic Data Interchange (EDI)
Who have increased controls over the way they manage and store patient information? - Answer-
Pharmacies
What must be protected by healthcare personnel, including pharmacy technicians, who must know
which types of information they can release? - Answer-Access to Medical Records
What must be handled with great care? - Answer-Discarded Patient Information (DPI)
When patient records are to be discarded, they should be destroyed by whom? - Answer-A licensed,
bonded company
How must computer storage media be discarded? - Answer-Completely Wiped
