RES: HIPAA Flashcards
what does HIPAA stand for?
Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act t
when and where was HIPAA passed by the congress?
1996 & USA
What does HIPAA do?
- provides the ability to transfer and continue health insurance coverage for millions of American workers and their families when they change or lose their jobs;
- reduces health care fraud and abuse;
- mandates industry-wide standards for health care information on electronic billing
- requires the protection and confidential handling of protected health information
what is the major role of the privacy rule?
To assure that individuals’ health information is properly protected while allowing the flow of health information needed to provide and promote high quality health care and to protect the public’s health and well-being.
this rule applies to health plans, health care clearinghouses, and to any health care provider who transmits health information in electronic form in connection with transactions for which the Secretary of HHS has adopted standards under HIPAA
the privacy rule and administrative simplification rules
protects all “individually identifiable health information”
The Privacy Rule
information that includes demographic data,
Individually identifiable health information
Individually identifiable health information i relates to:
- the individual’s past, present or future physical or mental health or condition,
- the provision of health care to the individua
- the past, present, or future payment for the provision of health care to the individual,
This rule excludes from protected health information employment records that a covered entity maintains in its capacity as an employer and education and certain other records subject to, or defined in, the Family Educational Rights and Privacy Act, 20
privacy rule
identifies the individual or for which there is a reasonable basis to believe it can be used to identify the individual.
Individually identifiable health information
because the HIPAA is a law in that applies only to healthcare in the USA, a law has been passed in the Philippines, this law was created in the philippines
Republic Act 10173 – Data Privacy Act of 2012
refers to an individual whose personal, sensitive personal, or privileged information is processed;
Data subject
refers to the structure and procedure by which personal data is collected and further processed in an information and communications system or relevant filing system, including the purpose and intended output of the processing;
Data processing systems
This act protecting individual personal information in information and communications systems in the government and the private sector, creating for this purpose a national privacy commission, and for other purposes.
Republic Act 10173 – Data Privacy Act of 2012
refers to communication by whatever means of any advertising or marketing material which is directed to particular individuals
Direct marketing
is the disclosure or transfer to a third party of personal data under the custody of a personal information controller or personal information processor.
“Data sharing”
refers to any set of information relating to natural or juridical persons to the extent that, although the information is not processed by equipment operating automatically in response to instructions given for that purpose, the set is structured, either by reference to individuals or by reference to criteria relating to individuals, in such a way that specific information relating to a particular individual is readily accessible
Filing system
refers to a system for generating, sending, receiving, storing, or otherwise processing electronic data messages or electronic documents, and includes the computer system
Information and communications system
