BUSN 2810 Ch 10 Access to Health Information

Which of the following is needed for a release of information form to be considered valid?

A specific and meaningful description of the information to be used or disclosed.

An emancipated minor is one who is

Actively serving in the US armed forces

You are the head of the health information management department at General Hospital. An FBI agent has arrived at your office with a search warrant in hand, wanting to obtain specific hospital health records. How should you respond?

I will inform the FBI that it is necessary to gain patient authorization before I'm able to disclose any health information unless they have won a lawsuit that grants them access to the information.

Which of the following is a mandatory HIPAA disclosure? a. Instances concerning victims of abuse, neglect, or domestic violence b. A description of the types of unsecured protected health information c. Contact procedures for individuals to ask questions or learn additional information d. Sale, merger, or consolidation with another health care entity

Instances concerning victims of abuse, neglect, or domestic violence

HIPAA provides for two exceptions in which approval for research does not require full IRB review. They include

Limited data set and de-identified information

What is different about medical identity theft when compared to identity theft?

Medical identity theft is identity theft obtained from a bill for medical services.

Which of the following would make a release of information invalid?

The expiration event is known by the covered entity to have occurred.

Question Workspace You are the director of health information services at a tertiary-care hospital. You and the director of emergency room services are jointly responsible for reporting instances of communicable disease, child abuse, and cancer to the appropriate state authority. You have just completed an audit of your institution's reporting mechanism and discovered that the reporting requirements are not consistently met. The audit could not definitively establish whether the reporting never occurred or occurred but was not documented in the patient's health record. Discuss what legal issues are present and what approaches you should take to resolve this problem.

The legal issue present is that reporting is mandatory and if the audit can't establish whether a report occurred, then there's a possibility the reports were not made at all, which could be an infraction of the law. I would hold a meeting with the director of emergency room services immediately to address each occurrence on the audit where it is unclear whether a report was made and ensure that proper procedures were followed. If they were not, we will immediately file the reports that were missed. Then, we will sit down and make a plan to ensure all reports are filed. We will plan for training and a checklist and make sure each employee is aware of the importance of filing mandatory disclosures.

The authority to release heath information rests with all of the following people except

a minor

A redisclosure notice

allows information released by a facility to be submitted to RHIO agencies

A health care provider's obligation regarding a business associate's compliance with the HIPAA Privacy Rule includes

an obligation to monitor the business associate's compliance with HIPAA

A parent will not be granted access to the health care record of his or her child who has not yet reached the age of majority when the minor child

can lawfully obtain health care without parental consent

Reporting of public health threats include

child abuse

The Belmont Report established guidelines for research projects, which promotes

choosing subjects equitably to avoid exploitation of vulnerable populations

An authorization for use or disclosure of patient-specific health information that has been combined with any other document is called a(n) _____ authorization.

compound

Authority for release of information can be granted by a(n)

executor of an estate

Consent means permission.

false

Patients receiving care from health care facilities operated by the federal government, such as Veterans Administration hospitals and Indian Health Services clinics, have fewer rights of access.

false

Who is required to obtain consent from the patient?

health care provider

A release of information (ROI) authorization signed and dated by the patient is considered invalid when it

lacks a specific description of the information requested

Institutional review boards use all of the following ethical theories except: a. autonomy b. beneficence c. negligence d. justice

negligence

According to HIPAA, the _____ has the right to access patient information in the complete medical record.

patient

Which of the following would NOT be considered a reasonable fee? a. Patient data b. Supplies c. Postage d. Labor

patient data

Adoption records are considered confidential and can only be released

pursuant to legal procedures of the state in which the records are maintained

HIPAA regulations establish a "floor" of patient rights, which means _____.

states may enact legislation that provides for additional patient access to records

Health care information is owned by the

treating physician