What is HIPAA?
- A regulation to combat fraud in the healthcare setting
- An act to amend and improve the portability of health insurance coverage
- A rule to set standards concerning the rights of individuals to their health information
- A regulation to combat fraud in the healthcare setting
Who must abide by HIPAA rules and regulations?
- Business associates
- Covered Entities
- Both business associates and covered entities
- Either business associates or covered entities
What is the standard for accessing patient information?
- A need to know for the performance of your job
- If a physician asks you the diagnosis of the patient
- You are a relative of the patient
- Just because you are curious
Who is responsible for protecting patients' individually identifiable health information?
- Staff
- Physician
- Cleaning person
- All of the above
A visitor who asks for a patient by name may receive the following information EXCEPT
- Patient name
- Patient room number
- Patient diagnosis
- Patient condition in general terms
What does HIPAA consist of?
- Privacy protections for individual health information
- Standards for the security of data systems
- Standardized Electronic Data Interchange transactions
- All of the above
What is PHI?
- Private HIPAA Information
- Personal Health Information
- Protected Health Inquiries
- Protected Health Information
What is the best definition of Health information?
- Created or received by a healthcare professional
- The past, present or future physical/mental health or condition of an individual
- Payment provision of healthcare to an individual.
- The health information of the pet of a patient.
Which of the following is covered in Safeguarding PHI?
- Dispose of PHI when it is no longer needed
- Keep the PHI Printout with you till you want.
- When retiring electronic media used to store PHI, ensure the media is not cleansed.
- Don't dispose of PHI and keep it with you.
What are the 3 major safeguards in protecting PHIs?
- Physical, Administrative, and Technical Safeguards
- Information, Psycho social, and Technical Safeguards
- Physical, Emotional, and Psycho social Safeguards
- Physical, Psycho social, and Technical Safeguards
Which of the following is a Technical Security?
- Passwords
- Training
- Locked media storage cases
- Designating a security officer
Which of the following is a Physical Security?
- Passwords
- Training
- Locked media storage cases
- Designating a security officer
Which of the following is an Administrative Security?
- Passwords
- Training
- Locked media storage cases
- Designating a security officer
Penalties for non-compliance can be which of the following types:
- Civil and accidental
- Criminal and incidental
- Accidental and purposeful
- Civil and criminal
Confidential information includes all of the following except:
- Passwords
- Clinical information
- Patient financial information
- User ID
What kind of personally identifiable health information is protected by the HIPAA privacy rules?
- Electronic
- Paper
- Spoken word
- All of the above
Access to PHI is determined by:
- Your role in the organization
- The length of time you've been employed
- Your answers to a questionnaire you fill out
- Your last job evaluation
This is the non-permitted disclosure of PHI that poses a significant risk of financial, reputational or other harm to the individual.
- Audit
- Breach
- Violation
- Non Disclosure
An example of a HIPAA violation and a possible breach of unsecured PHI would be:
- Accessing the computer to get information on a neighbor.
- Releasing a copy of a record to an unauthorized recipient.
- Disclosing PHI in a conversation with someone outside of the Health Dept.
- All of the above
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