Confidentiality in Allied Health

Question 1

Demonstrative Evidence

Answer 1

Something that helps illustrate a witness’s testimony, such as a map, chart, photograph, or voice recording.

Question 2

Competent Evidence

Answer 2

Evidence the court should accept into proof.

Question 3

Hearsay

Answer 3

Evidence in which witness’s aren’t telling what they know personally, but rather what others have said to them.

Question 4

Doctor-Patient Privilege

Answer 4

A relationship in which a patients medical history, conditions, and related information can’t be known without that patient’s permission.

Question 5

Subpoena

Answer 5

A command issued by the court.

Question 6

Medical Record

Answer 6

A document that includes a patient’s history, condition, diagnostic and therapeutic treatment, and the results of treatment.

Question 7

Author of a Medical Record

Answer 7

The medical provider who has created the data that appear in the record.

Question 8

Authentication

Answer 8

The confirmation of the content of an entry in a medical record; must be performed by the person who creates the data.

Question 9

Age of Majority

Answer 9

When a person becomes an adult.

Question 10

Certificate of Destruction

Answer 10

Documents that records were properly destroyed in the ordinary course of business.

Question 11

Informed Consent

Answer 11

A process of communication between a doctor and a patient in which the doctor explains the factors involved in a recommended medical process.

Question 12

Substituted Consent

Answer 12

An authorized person makes a decision for a person who in unable to do so.

Question 13

Freedom of Information Ace (FOIA)

Answer 13

A federal law intended to provide access to government records.

Question 14

Privacy Act of 1974

Answer 14

Prohibits disclosure of certain medical information by government agencies unless the patient gives written consent.

Question 15

Legal Basis for Confidentiality

Answer 15

The right of privacy derived from the constitution, statutes, and the common law.

Question 16

Three Groups to which HIPAA Regulations Apply

Answer 16

Health care providers, health plans, healthcare clearinghouse.

Question 17

Protected Health Information (PHI)

Answer 17

Any individually identifiable health information.

Question 18

Identifiable Information

Answer 18

Data about a specific person

Question 19

De-Identifiable Information

Answer 19

Information stripped of data that may identify an individual.

Question 20

Limited Data Set

Answer 20

Middle group between identifiable and de-identifiable information (for example, geographic data; dates relating to an individual; unique identifying numbers, characteristics, or codes other than those listed under individual indentifiers)

Question 21

Treatment

Answer 21

The provision of healthcare and related services.

Question 22

Payment

Answer 22

The activities of healthcare providers to obtain payment or be reimbursed for their services and the activities of a health plan to obtain premiums for their servces and the activities of a health plan to obtain premiums, to fulfill their coverage responsibilities ad provide benefits under the plan, and to obtain or provide reimbursement for the provision of healthcare.

Question 23

Health Care Operations

Answer 23

Certain administrative, financial, legal, and quality improvement activities of a covered entity that are necessary to run its business and to support the core functions of treatment and payment.

Question 24

Occupational Safety and Health Administrative (OSHA)

Answer 24

Responsible for enforcing safety rules in the workplace.

Question 25

Whistleblower

Answer 25

An employee who informs OSHA of illegal activity.

Question 26

Mutual Consent Registry

Answer 26

One method many states use to arrange the consents required for the release of identifying information related to adoptions.

Question 27

Substance Abuse

Answer 27

Refers to the excessive use (or abuse) of alcohol or drugs.

Question 28

Genetic Information Nondiscrimination Act

Answer 28

Adopted in 2008; designed to prevent the discriminatory use of genetic information by employers and insurers.

Question 29

Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC)

Answer 29

Serves as the National focus for developing and applying disease prevention and control, environmental health, and education activities designed to improve the health of the people of the United States.

Question 30

Enzyme Immunoassay (EIA)

Answer 30

The most common screening test use to look for HIV antibodies.

Question 31

Consumer-Controlled Test Kits

Answer 31

Popularly known as home testing kits, first licensed in 1997; used to collect a blood sample to send to a licensed laboratory for testing.

Question 32

Ways to Transmit HIV/AIDS Virus

Answer 32

Transmitted in four common ways: high-risk sexual contact, injection drug use, transmission from mother to child around the time of birth, blood transfusions, and other unknown causes.

Question 33

Routine HIV Testing

Answer 33

The CDC has recommended routine HIV testing for all Americans between 13 and 64 as a regular part of their healthcare.

Question 34

Risk Management

Answer 34

Identifies area of risk to medical service providers.

Question 35

Loss Prevention

Answer 35

A planned, systematic, and proactive process; in the area of healthcare, providers such as hospitals identify those activities, problems, and situations that may result in potential liability for the hospital, its employees, physicians, and even other healthcare providers.

Question 36

Loss Reduction

Answer 36

The steps taken after an event or incident occurs.

Question 37

Incident Report

Answer 37

Proper documentation of adverse incidents that occur during the treatment of a patient.

Question 38

Peer Review Committees

Answer 38

Consist of health professionals who monitor the quality and use of healthcare services.

Question 39

.Biometrics

Answer 39

Technologies that identify people through bodily characteristics, such as fingerprints, retinal patterns, and voice patterns.

Question 40

Use of Biometrics

Answer 40

To identify a patient to simplify secure access to records.

Question 41

Medical Records Custodian

Answer 41

Should know the hardware, software, and procedures for data entry to lay a foundation to admit medical records.

Question 42

Ways to Reduce Security Breaches of Medical Records

Answer 42

Use good passwords, change them frequently, and don’t share them. Use biometrics instead of passwords reduce unnecessary access to medical records by creating different levels of access based on the need to known train employees in safe practices, such as logging off immediately after access install appropriate protections, such as backing up files.