Legal and Ethical Aspects of Cancer Registry Data

Question 1

A central cancer registry operating under a state statute interacts with a reporting facility or physician office based on its:

Answer 1

Statutory Authority

Question 2

Which federal law impacts the work of cancer registrars in their everyday work and governs how protected health information may be
used, by whom, and for what purpose.

Answer 2

HIPAA - Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act

Question 3

The HIPAA Privacy Rule does not allow for public-health activities - T or F

Answer 3

Fasle- public-health activities include disease reporting and public health surveillance, defining how the cancer registrar is to be performed as well as its limitations

Question 4

One of the first federal laws to provide specific, statutory protection for patient privacy is:

Answer 4

FERPA- The Family Education Rights and Privacy Act

Question 5

HIPAA has shaped the major structural aspects of cancer reporting across the United States. T or F

Answer 5

False - Privacy and confidentiality considerations have shaped the major structural aspects of cancer reporting across the United States.

Question 6

The legal responsibility of a person that involves the avoidance of behavior, as well as errors or omissions in one’s conduct, that
could foreseeably cause harm to the person or to others is

Answer 6

Duty of Care -

Question 7

The act that is part of the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act (ARRA) is:

Answer 7

HITECH- The Health Information Technology for Economic and Clinical Health

Question 8

If a health care organization fails to perform its duty of care, the patient may seek legal compensation based on

Answer 8

Civil negligence

Question 9

Cancer reporting to registries is considered a

Answer 9

Public Health activity-A provision in HIPAA allows a covered entity to use or disclose PHI for various public health activities and purposes

Question 10

The scrambling of protected data both of stored information and transmitted information that can only be viewed after the using an
appropriate key is called

Answer 10

Encryption

Question 11

Which of the following requires safeguards applicable to PHI and sets limits and conditions on the uses and disclosures that may be
made of such information without authorization

Answer 11

Privacy Rule