Exam 1 - Lecture 3 Flashcards
3 major points of OBRA
- Mandated changes in pharmacy practice going beyond oversight of drug distribution to include the detection and resolution of problems with drug therapy
- required DUR and patient counseling
- Required offer to counsel
Basic Framework of OBRA (3)
DUR
Patient counseling
Demonstration projects
Demonstration projects OBRA
goal to determine through scientific studies where outcomes of patient care improve and costs decrease when pharmacists are paid to provide DUR services to patients
if they do, likely to increase compensation gov provides for these services
3 Parts of DUR process
Retrospective review
Educational Programs
Prospective Review
Prospective Review
Pharmacists required to find out necessary info about the patients and their meds BEFORE dispensing occurs
requires active resolution of problems through comprehensive review of a patients prescription order at the point of dispensing
3 prospective review components required by OBRA
- screening of prescriptions before dispensing
- Pt counseling by pharmacist
- pharmacist documentation of relevant info
Retrospective Review must include….
- DUR review board of MD and RPh oversees it
- Develop ideal dug therapy criteria
- Data review med use over a particular time period and compare to idea drug therapy criteria
- ID areas of improvement such as clinical abuse/misuse
Prospective Review should include screening for….
- potential drug therapy problems due to therapeutic dup
- drug-disease CI
- Drug-Drug Interactions
- incorrect drug dosage or duration of drug treatment
- drug-allergy interactions
- clinical abuse/misuse
Education Program requirements
- must provide for active and ongoing educational outreach programs on common drug therapy problems, sing data provided by the state drug use review board
Examples of education programs….
Face-to-face visits by experts
symposiums attended by professionals involved in medication use
Written materials delivered to HCP
Patient counseling
Pharmacists must OFFER to discuss with each pt or caregiver matters that in the pharmacists professional judgment are significant
What has to be required in patient counseling
- Name & Med description
- Dosage form, Dose, Route of admin, duration
- Special directions/precautions/admin
- Common sever SE, ADR, DI
- Techniques for self-monitoring drug therapy
- Proper storage
- Prescription Refill info
- Actions to be taken in event of missed dose
Patient Waiver to counseling
Patient has right to waive the counseling
2 Main goals of HIPAA
- provide continuous health insurance coverage for workers who lose or change their job
- reduce admin burdens and costs of healthcare by standardizing electronic transmission of admin and financial transactions
Other goals of HIPAA
- Combating abuse, fraud, and waste in health insurance and healthcare delivery
- improving access to long-term care services and health insurance
HIPAA Title 2
- directs US Dept of HHS to establish national standards for processing electronic Healthcare transactions
- Req Healthcare organizations to implement secure electronic access to health data and to remain in compliance with privacy regulations set by HHS
HIPAA compliance requirements include….
- Every Healthcare entity must have NPI
- HCO must follow standardized mech for electronic data interchange in order to submit and process insurance claims
- HIPAA privacy rule = national standards to protect patient health info
- HIPAA security rule = standards for patient data security
- HIPAA enforcement rule = establishes guidelines for investigations into HIPAA compliance violations
HIPAA privacy rule
Established 1st national standards in US to protect patients personal or protected health info
also guarantees patients right to receive own PHI on request
Covered entities under HIPAA privacy rule
Health Care providers
Health Plans
Health Care Clearinghouse
Business Associates***
** must have written business associate contract or arrangement that specifies what associate has been engage to do and requires them to comply with HIPAA**
Examples of Business Associates includes….
- 3rd party admin that assists w/ health plan claims processing
- consultant performing utilization reviews for hospital
- Health care clearinghouse that translates a claim from a nonstandard format into a standard transaction on behalf of a health care provider, and forwards the processed transaction to a payer
4 Independent medical transcriptionist that provides transcription services to a physician
What info is protected under HIPAA
- Individual Identifiable PHI under the privacy rule
2. includes digital, oral,paper info
Does de-identified data have restrictions to its use or disclosure?
Nah
What is considered PHI under HIPAA?
- a patient’s name, address, birth date and Social Security number;
- an individual’s physical or mental health condition;
- any care provided to an individual; or
- information concerning the payment for the care provided to the individual that identifies the patient, or information for which there is a reasonable basis to believe could be used to identify the patient.
Are records subject to or defined in the Family Educational Rights and Privacy Act considered PHI?
Nah
including employment records, education info too
Administrative Requirements under Privacy Rule
- Privacy official responsible for developing and implementing policies and procedures
- Training all employees, incl volunteers and trainees
- Appropriate safeguards
- complaint process