Ch 13 nursing informatics

Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act (HIPPA)

A law passed in 1996 that protects the privacy and security of health information and provides patients the right to see their own health records.

Personal health record (PHR)

A record of health information owned by the individual; may be maintained using computer document or paper record.

Patient portals

A secure website that provides patients access to their EHR data

Unique patient identifier (UPI)

A single source that links each patient with his or her individual health record.

Protocol

A system of rules required for data transfer.

USB port

Installed on a computer that allows a device with a universal serial bus connection to be plugged in and accessed on the computer.

Smart card

Looks like a plastic credit card and, like a credit card, has embedded information that a smart card reader can read; requires the appropriate computer system and access code to read and write, encrypts the data on the card.

Electronic medical record

The focus of most healthcare providers today, the institution or provider that creates it owns and manages them, and they are accessible to consumers; not a true electronic health record because outside agencies cannot interface with them.

Security

The measures implemented to prevent unauthorized users access to the personal health information of patients.

Personal identification number (PIN)

An identifier used to gain computer access.

Privacy

The right of patients to control what happens to the personal health information.

Flash drive

A data storage device that connects to a computer via universal serial bus (USB).

Consumer informatics

A field of study related to healthcare information that is accessible to consumers in a useful, understandable manner.

Electronic health record

An electronic record of a patients health history, established by George W. Bush in 2004; one's health information is available from any location where there is internet access and a health information exchange.

Confidentiality

Authorized care providers maintaining all personal health information as secret, except to other care providers who need access to that information and to others that the patient has consented to allow access.

De-identified data

Data stripped of subjective identifiers.

Interoperable

Data that can be shared electronically, such as in an electronic health record.