ANSWERS GRADED A+
◉ Provides patients with. Answer: 1. gives patients more control over
their health information;
2. sets boundaries on the use and release of health records;
3. establishes appropriate safeguards that the majority of health-care
providers and others must achieve to protect the privacy of health
information;
4. holds violators accountable with civil and criminal penalties that can
be imposed if they violate patients' privacy rights;
5. strikes a balance when public health responsibilities support
disclosure of certain forms of data;
enables patients to make informed choices based on how individual
health information may be used;
6. enables patients to find out how their information may be used and
what disclosures of their information have been made;
7. generally limits release of information to the minimum reasonably
needed for the purpose of the disclosure;
generally gives patients the right to obtain a copy of their own health
records and request corrections;
8. empowers individuals to control certain uses and disclosures of their
health information.
, ◉ HIPAA's purpose. Answer: was adopted to ensure health insurance
coverage after leaving an employer and also to provide standards for
facilitating health-care--related electronic transactions.
◉ The HIPAA Privacy Rule. Answer: (Standards for Privacy of
Individually Identifiable Health Information) (provides the first national
standards for protecting the privacy of health information. The Privacy
Rule regulates how certain entities, called covered entities, use and
disclose certain individually identifiable health information, called
protected health information (PHI). PHI is individually identifiable
health information that is transmitted or maintained in any form or
medium (e.g., electronic, paper, or oral), but excludes certain
educational records and employment records.
◉ PHI - Protected Health Information. Answer: The Privacy Rule
protects certain information that covered entities use and disclose. PHI,
which is generally individually identifiable health information that is
transmitted by, or maintained in, electronic media or any other form or
medium. This information must relate to 1) the past, present, or future
physical or mental health, or condition of an individual; 2) provision of
health care to an individual; or 3) payment for the provision of health
care to an individual. If the information identifies or provides a
reasonable basis to believe it can be used to identify an individual, it is
considered individually identifiable health information.