MTLBE - Chapter 7 Questions and Answers|
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PARTICIPATING HEALTH CARE PROVIDER (PHCP) Health care providers whose
application to participate in the PHIE is approved in accordance with Joint DOH-DOST-
PhilHealth A.O. 2016-0001 (Implementation of the PHIE), and any other procedure that may be
promulgated by the DOH for participation.
PATIENT OR CLIENT A person availing of medical consultation, diagnostic
examinations, treatment or health care services from a health care provider.
PATIENT REGISTRY Organization and processes supporting a patient register
PATIENT REGISTER A set of patient records systematized around a particular disease,
condition or exposure, and serving "one or more predetermined scientific, clinical, or policy
purposes."
PERSONAL INFORMATION Any information whether recorded in a material form or
not, from which the identity of an individual is apparent or can be reasonable and directly
ascertained by the entity holding the information, or when put together with other information
would directly and certainly identify an individual.
PERSONAL DATA BREACH A breach of security leading to the accidental or unlawful
destruction, loss, alteration, unauthorized disclosure of, or access to, personal data transmitted,
stored, or otherwise processed.
,PERSONAL INFORMATION CONTROLLER A person or organization that controls the
collection, holding, processing or use of personal information, including a person or organization
that instructs another person or organization to collect, hold, process, use, transfer or disclose
personal information on his or her behalf. - This term excludes: a. A person or organization who
performs such functions as instructed by another person or organization; and b. An individual
who collects, holds, processes or uses personal information in connection with the individual's
personal, family or household affairs.
PERSONAL INFORMATION PROCESSOR Any natural or juridical person or any other
body to whom a personal information controller may outsource or instruct the processing of
personal data pertaining to a data subject.
PRIVACY The right of a person to be free from intrusion or disturbance in one's personal
and intimate life or affairs. It includes data privacy, which refers to the right of an individual not
to have his or her personal data disclosed using the ability to control what personal data is
disclosed, with whom, and for what purpose.
PRIVILEGE COMMUNICATION Conversation or working relationship which takes
place between two parties within the context of a protective relationship such as between
healthcare provider and a patient.
, PROCESSING Any operation performed upon personal information including, but not
limited to, the collection, recording, organization, storage, updating or modification, retrieval,
consultation, use, consolidation, blocking, erasure or destruction of data.
PUBLICATION The act or process of producing a book, magazine, etc., and thereafter
making it available to the public.
PUBLIC HEALTH All organized measures to prevent disease, promote health, and
prolong life across the population. Its activities aim to provide conditions in which people can be
healthy. They focus on entire populations, not on individual patients or diseases.
PUBLIC HEALTH EMERGENCY An occurrence or imminent threat of an illness or
health condition, cause by bio terrorism, epidemic or pandemic disease, or a novel and highly
fatal infectious agent or biological toxin, that poses a substantial risk of a significant number of
human facilities or incidents or permanent long-term disability.
REQUIRED Specifications that must be implemented.
SECURITY The organization, technical and physical measures to ensure the safety and
protection of the health information.
SECURITY INCIDENT An event or occurrence that affects or tends to affect data
protection, or may compromise the availability, integrity and confidentiality of personal data. It
includes incidents that would result to a personal data breach, if not for safeguards that have been
put in place.
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PARTICIPATING HEALTH CARE PROVIDER (PHCP) Health care providers whose
application to participate in the PHIE is approved in accordance with Joint DOH-DOST-
PhilHealth A.O. 2016-0001 (Implementation of the PHIE), and any other procedure that may be
promulgated by the DOH for participation.
PATIENT OR CLIENT A person availing of medical consultation, diagnostic
examinations, treatment or health care services from a health care provider.
PATIENT REGISTRY Organization and processes supporting a patient register
PATIENT REGISTER A set of patient records systematized around a particular disease,
condition or exposure, and serving "one or more predetermined scientific, clinical, or policy
purposes."
PERSONAL INFORMATION Any information whether recorded in a material form or
not, from which the identity of an individual is apparent or can be reasonable and directly
ascertained by the entity holding the information, or when put together with other information
would directly and certainly identify an individual.
PERSONAL DATA BREACH A breach of security leading to the accidental or unlawful
destruction, loss, alteration, unauthorized disclosure of, or access to, personal data transmitted,
stored, or otherwise processed.
,PERSONAL INFORMATION CONTROLLER A person or organization that controls the
collection, holding, processing or use of personal information, including a person or organization
that instructs another person or organization to collect, hold, process, use, transfer or disclose
personal information on his or her behalf. - This term excludes: a. A person or organization who
performs such functions as instructed by another person or organization; and b. An individual
who collects, holds, processes or uses personal information in connection with the individual's
personal, family or household affairs.
PERSONAL INFORMATION PROCESSOR Any natural or juridical person or any other
body to whom a personal information controller may outsource or instruct the processing of
personal data pertaining to a data subject.
PRIVACY The right of a person to be free from intrusion or disturbance in one's personal
and intimate life or affairs. It includes data privacy, which refers to the right of an individual not
to have his or her personal data disclosed using the ability to control what personal data is
disclosed, with whom, and for what purpose.
PRIVILEGE COMMUNICATION Conversation or working relationship which takes
place between two parties within the context of a protective relationship such as between
healthcare provider and a patient.
, PROCESSING Any operation performed upon personal information including, but not
limited to, the collection, recording, organization, storage, updating or modification, retrieval,
consultation, use, consolidation, blocking, erasure or destruction of data.
PUBLICATION The act or process of producing a book, magazine, etc., and thereafter
making it available to the public.
PUBLIC HEALTH All organized measures to prevent disease, promote health, and
prolong life across the population. Its activities aim to provide conditions in which people can be
healthy. They focus on entire populations, not on individual patients or diseases.
PUBLIC HEALTH EMERGENCY An occurrence or imminent threat of an illness or
health condition, cause by bio terrorism, epidemic or pandemic disease, or a novel and highly
fatal infectious agent or biological toxin, that poses a substantial risk of a significant number of
human facilities or incidents or permanent long-term disability.
REQUIRED Specifications that must be implemented.
SECURITY The organization, technical and physical measures to ensure the safety and
protection of the health information.
SECURITY INCIDENT An event or occurrence that affects or tends to affect data
protection, or may compromise the availability, integrity and confidentiality of personal data. It
includes incidents that would result to a personal data breach, if not for safeguards that have been
put in place.
